Increasingly, I feel the drone attacks may be our strongest technique against the enemy. As long as civilian casualties are kept as low as humanly possible. They are certainly more promising than an endless counter-insurgency in defense of a corrupt government.
Ahhh yes - "keeping civilian casualties as low as humanly possible" - If the drones only killed my innocent mother and sister but not 30 other innocent mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, I'm sure that I and my relatives, friends and neighbors wouldn't hate America at all - cause they're keeping civilian casualties as low as humanly possible. Good god. When are we going to realize that this struggle is not going to be won by occupying countries or sending in robotic killing machines spreading death indiscriminately? As fast as we kill one (and thirty other "deeply regrettable" civilian casualties) we create a new fertile pool of recruits. Have we simply resigned ourselves to a state of permanent war?
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