Comments on: Drone Warfare in the Obama Administration

By: fuad

fuad — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:26:34 +0000

go ahead

kill 1 billion muslims and have fun coz you’d have nothing left to eat either

maybe then the rest of you can eat uranium sandwiches and plutonium burgers

enjoy

By: Ann141

Ann141 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:51:13 +0000

Spindok….

I’m so sick of being expected to provide PC responses to everything from the MSM that I make a mistake with my own response, as in this case. Appreciate your further comments….

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:24:09 +0000

Yea! Turn the “freedom fighters” loose in Gitmo, and put Obama and Biden there for their war crimes!

By: Spindok

Spindok — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:43:52 +0000

16. Anne141

Bringing up race is infrequent for libertarians. It is a philosophy which focuses sharply on individual rights and tends to reject group politics.

I bring it up here because I think that much of the world, outside of the US, misunderstood this individual, our new president. They tended to downplay his more aggresive stated policies; I think in large part, because of the mere circumstance of something which most Americans have gone beyond.

Obama stated many times that he is intending a more aggresive war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He stated many times that is is not changing US policy toword Israel. He has committed to full weight of US military power whenever he feels it is appropriate.

Those international supporters who thought that his racial background automatically gained some sympathy for something he sees as against US interests are sorely mistaken.

Maybe some folks out in the hinterlands of Pakistan or London thought that our new president was of a different tribe than the rest. They were wrong. This is the USA and things are different here.

There is nothing wrong with ‘bringing up race’. Where I see a potential for danger is in those outside of the US who might take chances by challenging the new president because of that. He does not have military experience. He might overreact to prove his mettle.

At the same time he has wisely surrounded himself with advisors who have been in the trenches. C’mon you want to go up against Clinton or Emanuel one-on-one in a negotiation?

Since I have no real political party I get to criticize without accountability. I can also give support where I think the best interests of our nation are, irrespective of Democrat or Republican.

There might be a chance to turn things around in Pakistan/Afghanistan. Worse job than Iraq and that is already a mess.

Spindok

By: narciso

narciso — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:52:36 +0000

Isn’t this really the job of McKiernan and his superior Petraues, running these operations. Although Gilani and Karzai are both protesting.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:48:36 +0000

That $.40 tax is two orders of magnitude less than what is needed to pay for all this. It would raise less than $40 billion/year when we need trillions. It is a drop in the bucket.

By: john from cinncinatti

john from cinncinatti — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:06:00 +0000

my problem with BHO is that i can’t even begin to fathom what kind of liar he is. but i’m beginning to get an inclination that he is a world class liar. the taxes i heard mentioned a few months back were to be on fuel. something to the effect of 40 cents on the gallon. that isn’t going to fly on 5 $ a gallon gas, but on 2$ to 2.40 it might be palatable, so taxes to be paid by grandkids won’t hurt as much, neither will the great giveaway.
he has a large bus and his willingness to throw people under it has been demonstrated, and the hope that some of those will also be of the international type, a select few of the Saudi persuasion and one of the persian. Hope he apologizes to Amedinajad… before he throws his lunatic ass under the bus. Hey Obie can you get a predator to do a fly-by in Iran?

By: Ann141

Ann141 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:47:24 +0000

14.spindoc…..yet once again….the lib has to bring up race

By: deguello

deguello — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:27:19 +0000

“Drone warfare”Isn’t that the name for Obama’s plan to raise taxes on working americans and give non tax payers a welfare check in order to buy their votes ?

By: Spindok

Spindok — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:02:55 +0000

Josh C (13)

You got it right:

“The thing is Mike that a lot of people said they were voting for Obama or supported Obama (particularly those from outside the US) because he was ‘anti-war’, ‘not a warmonger’, would ‘talk rather than kill’ etc. I heard these sentiments expressed time and again on the radio or in conversations in the UK.”

IMO many people who supported Obama weren’t getting it. I like the word ’sentiments’ which you expressed. That is what passes for realpolitik among certain parts of the population.

Drone planes with hellfire missiles, backdoor conversations with Hamas leaders, Iranian dissedents..lets go further…

Sentiment

Let the ‘world’ be on notice now. This is not the wussy-crap America you wanted. What were you thinking? Maybe people with a bit more melanin in their skin are going to be easy pushovers?

Maybe a Brit would think that way. Won’t happen in Detroit or New Orleans.

You think that Democracts (I am not one, (l)ibetarian myself), can’t kick? Maybe you dont know our history.

Yall just dont get it. Nor should you.

Spindok