yip you heard it/ stop bombing everyone and making up lies to justify it!! The only terrorist are you and your army.
Hmm.
No debate. Cussing.
BBQ Pit.
Bombing countries is like potato chips. You can’t bomb just one!
LOL
Welcome to SDMB. If you continue your illustrious degree of posting… You’ll fit in real well.
Wait, no, what’s that term I was thinking of… Kind of exactly the opposite of that…
Where is New Zealand? You know…coordinate-wise?
Why don’t you try MAKING us stop, big guy?
Isn’t it part of Australia? I think its the part with all the kangaroos.
Better bomb them both, just to be sure.
To attempt to address the OP seriously for a moment: while there is certainly a valid argument to be made about the US’s less-than-discriminate past and present bombing/drone strike behavior, to say that the US are the “only” terrorists is hyperbolically stupid. There’s plenty of terroristic behavior to go around depending on how you define it, from Al Qaeda to US drone strikes to Israeli attacks on the Palestinians to the fragmented remains of the IRA and so on and so forth. The world is full of shitty people doing shitty things, often with lofty rationalizations attached. Deal with it.
And learn to write coherently while you’re at it.
Well, I, for one, find the OP’s argument and well-constructed logic to be undeniable, and hereby vow to completely stop my drone attacks against unarmed civilians. Well done, good sir!
I understand your frustration, please elaborate some more.
Hm with detractors like you who needs supporters?
As far as I can see, we are hardly bombing anybody right now. I cannot remember the last time we bombed Wales, or Burkina Faso, or any of several dozen other countries.
when the number of innocent victims of drone strikes reaches approx 3000, then balance will have been restored, if one considers this round of ‘warfare’ as beginning with 9/11.
America is slowly disengaging from the middle east, but what the militant muslims apparently want is ‘no’ Western influence in their idyllic lands. That won’t ever happen.
so long as people are plotting to kill Americans, there or here, the drone strike is the best way to prevent that from happening. Breaking up the organizations who call for ‘death to America’ would be the end to the drones, so the militants can go back to their families, to make sure their women are dominated and their girl children are not allowed to go to school. Fine, that is their culture, so be it. They can even kill their daughters if they happen to peek at a non-family man…none of my business…
but plotting to kill Americans, no matter how threatened you feel you are by Western culture? We’ll keep killing you first.
does that sum up the arguments for the time being?
Nah, it’s the part with all the womp rats.
No wait, sorry, that’s wombats.
:dubious:
It’s taking us longer than we thought.
That’s because Belgium’s next.
Is it Kiwis again? Man, they is on a rampage lately.
Brand new poster, already cranking out more than 26 posts a day…careful, you’ll burn out before getting to the good stuff.
Eh, if you were upside down all the time, you’d be angry to.
One does one’s best to be evenhanded. Sometimes we blow up bad guys, sometimes we blow up weddings. Still, at least with drones we seem to get fewer of our own guys killed, which is better (for a given value of “better”).
To sum up: war bad. Terrorism bad. Pie good. Unless it’s WAR PIE in which case it’s bad.
…but who’s counting?
Of course, from their point of view we started it much earlier and we (the West) have a much higher body count. But no, that’s all bygones. History rebooted on September 11, 2001.
That’s…actually quite insane. “You’re bad because you want to kill us because you feel threatened by us, therefore we’re going to kill you first because we feel threatened by you, incidentally justifying your feelings of being threatened by us.” How constructive.
We invented the Internet that you’re ranting on, buddy. 'Nuff said.