# Americans - how do you morally justify drone strikes in the "War on Terror"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-how-do-you-morally-justify-drone-strikes-in-the-war-on-terror/637440 "2012-10-11T18:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 226
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-how-do-you-morally-justify-drone-strikes-in-the-war-on-terror/637440/226 "2012-10-15T20:26:08Z")
> [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > First off, we are not at war with Pakistan Nobody has said otherwise. > [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > I already linked to a Washington Post article stating that the Obama administration defines every adult male in Pakistan as a terrorist You linked to a New York Times article that said nothing of the sort. > [@New York Times](#): > > It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent. This is arguable on its own, so there’s no need to pile on a bunch of nonsense about saying everyone in Pakistan is a terrorist. > [@Pet lobsters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-lobsters/78773/7): > > As for the idea that anyone who doesn’t support the insane plan to murder the whole population of Pakistan One of us definitely missed something here, but I don’t think it’s me. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-how-do-you-morally-justify-drone-strikes-in-the-war-on-terror/637440)._