A missile fired by a pilotless U.S. drone aircraft on Friday killed at least three militants traveling in a car in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, security officials said.
The United States carried out at least 50 drone air strikes in northwestern border regions in 2009, killing about 415 people, including many foreign militants, according to tally reports from Pakistani officials and residents.
I am reading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall right now.
Seems that the Near East was a constantly troubling area to the Romans. For centuries.
There is no solution for the problems radiating from that area, and the people there just don’t like Christians or Jews. Period.
So what is there to do? I don’t know. But green glass sounds like a start.
In Korea, McArthur considered spreading extremely radioactive material all along the Korean-Chinese border. Clever, eh?
An invisible shield, like Colgate toothpaste used to have in the fifties.
Then, just shoot down any air traffic coming out of the place.
To appease the wonderfully decent liberals, continue to catapult food and cash into the place.
Before doing this, give everyone one week to leave, if they consent to a full cavity search and eat a pound of bacon.
I was watching my kids play Modern Warfare 2 on th PS3, calling in a predator strike, marking the target with a laser. It’s a strikingly impersonal way to destroy a target. Just another mission in the game according to them.
Well, you have to start somewhere.
How many points do you get for a ‘foreign militants’?
Phydeau said,
“Uh, if the bodies were burned beyond recognition and they are still trying to determine their identity, how do they know they got the right guys?”
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That is one of the advantages of killing people in this manner. Since there is no evidence to the contrary, they are ALWAYS the “right guys”.
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I’ll never forget what a friend of mine told me about what what he was taught by his police academy instructor. He was told (in private), “If you are alone with a suspect and you have to shoot, shoot to kill and don’t stop shooting until you are sure the suspect is dead. The last thing you need is another person’s testimony that contradicts yours”.
Makes you wonder why in many police involved shootings where there are no other witnesses, all the cops shoot the suspect until their weapons are empty (and sometimes reload and shoot some more). Hmmmmm
#17 Ah, Dullas. Obama has your read your post and he’s very happy with it. As a reward, he said you won’t be licking the floor he steps upon, He will send conFusion instead.
#22 CODMW2 rules!
If many are foreign militants, how can they be Pakistanis?
It would seem the post title is contradicted by its quote.
I suspect that if the Al Qaeda and other Islamist combatants would just abide by the Geneva Convention and wear uniforms and not pretend to be civilians, then this war might be a bit more tidy for those who don’t understand that war really can solve problems.
What do you call 415 dead Pakistanis? A good start. These people are not are friends, they hate us. We are just returning the favor.
RSweeney,
So because they refuse to play fair by wearing uniforms, hopefuly brightly colored ones that show up well to the UAVs’ cameras, how about we firebomb the whole country? I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
I seem to remember hearing that during the US Revolution, our forefathers sometimes hid in the forest to pick off the brightly colored British Officers. Please correct me if my memory is faulty.
All is fair in love or war, until “captured” that is.
Duh..just 415..come on America you can do better
#5. You sound confused. I tried reading it as sarcasm but you still sound confused.
#30 I beg to differ. There’s only one person on the blog that is conFused. #5 can be just senile.
consider:
-at the end of 2007, during a casual conversation with a close friend in the Air Force, he mentioned the number of dead U.S. troops in the iraqi theater was “closer” to 7000. (it was “officially” in the sub 4000′s at the time)
The possibility of this 415 number being anywhere near accurate is farcical at best.
The military by nature, will never give accurate “intel” no matter what the agenda is. -to do so would be tactical suicide.
There has been no “Just” war for *ages*. They are all strictly vehicles to manipulate politics and acquire profit, power and real estate, period. Anyone who believes otherwise is still wet behind their ears and smelling themselves.
We are engaged in a war with no defined borders, no defined enemy and best of all (for weapons dealers, private “security firms” -and those frothing at the mouth with wet dreams of a perpetual global police state)
NO DEFINED EXIT STRATEGY or END in sight.
To top it off, we have a Sunni president with an itchy “Shiite” nuke finger looking to continue his bloodline’s hostilities and has no qualms about spilling American blood to do it.
Only a moron is blind to these facts.
-the lunatics are now fully in charge of the insane asylum..
Wake the F up people. Time to shit or get off the pot.
-s