Lightning kills 24,000 every year.
This happens after all national catastrophes. Did we ignore the right to habeus corpus? Did we intern Muslims? Did we implement an Alien and Sedition Act?
Thank you for finding that. I accept it. There are about 1/3 more deaths by lightning than by militant attacks, worldwide.
But lets say that there hadn’t been a big and successful effort to protect the US from becoming a frequent target of militant attacks. Then when follow-up domestic terror attacks occurred, even if far smaller than 9/11, the politicians who were responsible for not doing much about 9/11 would have lost big. And the civil liberties concerns with what came next would be even greater.
The US has roughly the same degree of liberty as the average democracy, with one big exception being that we have the highest incarceration rate. Prisons are a far bigger liberty issue than whether someone listens in to my international phone calls. Now listening in to Angela Merkel’s calls – that wasn’t smart. But computerized listening in, in general, is inevitable.
Since I’d gladly give up the US constitution in favor of that of just about any other English speaking democracy, I suppose the Bill of Rights thing doesn’t tug at my heart as it does yours.
That would be terrorism, and it would invite reprisals.
Or, you know, treat politically motivated crime as crime, instead of acting like it’s some super-version of war.
This would be impossible for actions outside the USA where our crime fighting apparatus would have no access to suspects and/or witnesses. OBL would still be alive. The Taliban would still control Afghanistan. Just how is this supposed to work?
Gee, if only there were mechanisms for cooperation between sovereign states that would allow formal methods of extradition. :rolleyes:
Like this suggestion has any realistic chance of ever working. :rolleyes:
Like Pakistan would extradite OBL. :rolleyes:
Like France would extradite Roman Polanski. :rolleyes:
Like Argentina would extradite Adolf Eichmann. :rolleyes: Or Brazil Josef Mengele. :rolleyes:
I’m sure this has been tried in high terror death incidence countries like Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan, and in the medium terror incidence country of Israel. I don’t think it has worked as well as the little-loved preventive law enforcement and surveillance model we have in the US. (Although there’s a good chance that the US is already, secretly, doing what you recommend. But that wouldn’t explain why we have so few domestic attacks despite being so hated by militant fighters.)
As for people who think the other-than-assassination methods the US uses now are worthless, consider the large number of foreign fighters flocking to Syria. Why don’t they come to the US instead? Don’t they hate the US government as much as they hate that of Syria? So why don’t they come here? The US must be doing something right.
It’s comical that people use the phrase “War on Terror” like it has meaning or substance.
These people are sheep.
eh?
We do. And have since 1971.