Lindsey Graham stood up in strong support for Obama's murderous drone program. He called drone killing one of the "highlights" of the administration's first term. "Every member of Congress needs to get on board," the Republican senator complained. "It's not fair to the president to let him, leave him out there alone quite frankly. He's getting hit from libertarians and the left." Libertarians have been staunch in their opposition to drones. This is because of their consistent and principled opposition to absolute government power. The left, however, has not been consistent in opposing Obama on anything.
Graham thinks Obama should be left alone on this issue because he is simply going after terrorists. "I think the middle of America understands why you would want a drone program to go after a person like Anwar al-Awlaki." Graham believes it is up to the president to do whatever he wants with "enemy combatants" during "wartime," regardless of what the law says. "The process of being targeted I think is legal, quite frankly laborious and should reside in the commander in chief to determine who an enemy combatant is and what kind of force to use," he said. Apparently due process is too time consuming in a time of war.
This is the current Republican "opposition" to Obama's automation of murder: support the program, trust your president and stop worrying about the rights of "terrorists." Americans need to oppose Obama's drone program and the next Democrat or Republican president's likely continuation of the drone program.
Graham will offer a resolution next week to praise President Obama for the drones and the killing of an American citizen.
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Big Mama you are right. Murder is murder. Nothing to love about it. As much as I would like to believe that a person who commits a murder must have had a just reason and would never do it again, I have to live in the real world and unfortunately that means that sometimes a person or group that is committing such acts including murder they must be stopped. I wish they would be willing to lay down all weapons and come out with hands up and surrender but not usually the case.
And as much as it will irritate some people, speaking of evil and murder, as a Christian I have researched this area. A- all sins are equal adultery, theft, murder, worshiping a false god.....all in the eyes of god (again this is the Christian version) are equal. For the next kicker, murder/killing even in times of war is murder and a sin. That does not mean I will ever turn my back on a military person who has killed a person in the line of duty. It does not mean I will throw stones, or protest them. It isn't my place to judge them and it is between them and their God, or conscious, or their id, ego and super ego. Which is what makes their sacrifice for their country that much stronger. They have to live with it. And I hope they can find a way. Also, if one or more of them makes a big mistake, putting a strike in place to completion against orders that sort of stuff they don't skate by. Life is serious, Death is serious, most people get this. But Obama is not the first president to use drones, they do now have the ability to carry missiles and stuff. But the use of this does not make him a dictator, a commie, a socialist, a marxist, a so on and so on. Why is it when something that he gives the go to goes well (he doesn't take credit) he gives credit to all other persons involved, praises them, but a congressmen stands up and say we should support him and the same guy who praises the others get's dumped on by so many others even for good things. Geeze
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It isn't like Drones are ever used to gather intel. Oh wait yes they are.
Well even then once they are locked and loaded if civilians enter the line of fire too bad no way we could see that, oops we can, but we still can't abort....stop/cancel (for any one who might think I mean the abortion of a pregnancy) the mission..............ooops we can.
Sending drones into unknown territories to determine if terrorists or other enemies at large are in an area put our pilots at risk of......no wait So what is the issue?
Drones (think unmanned remote control plane, small, fairly quiet, can fly in tight areas, and relay information almost instantly. Yes they can be armed and take out specific targets.) and no repositioning of satellites or waiting for the next pass of a satellite.
I get there are some people who do not believe in violence, much less war, killing, etc. of any kind for any reason. Slightly Off Topic:am I the only one who gets befuddled by the "do you believe" concept. Do I believe in UFO's. Yes, I have seen objects flying in the air that I cannot identify....UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTs. Do I believe in war. I don't like it, but it happens, if it must happen hopefully it is because some person or group went off half cocked and decided on some diabolical plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD, and those who can stand up for what is right do so. Do I believe in Religion....it exists, I can join it, I can protest it IT EXISTS.
Back to topic. We live in a time where we don't have to wait for a satellite to pass over a specific area and relay information back to us and even that depends on weather, if the person or group is covered, etc. And if the drone is spotted by an enemy they can move, they might even be able to shoot it down. But then what? Have we seen one single video of guys in hoods holding swords or guns to a drone spouting how they will behead the drone if this or that happens?
Even people who accept that sometimes war is going to happen in order to stop a person or group that would cause much worse than war (hard to believe but yes), some are anti-drone (those poor bees can't catch a break) under the concept that it makes it less real, more like a video. I get that. There is something to be said for watching something on a screen half way across the world that may for some make it less real. I trust and believe and hope that those who make those calls and sit in those rooms truly have a concept of what they are watching is REAL.
I believe they allow us to gather intel, locate threats, minimize civilian casualties, minimize injury and death to servicemen and women. And all along, they are machines. They don't have humanish traits like murderous, religious, greed, love, hate, racist, etc. To put it simply, have you ever taken a basic calculator, like the $1.00 ones at Target and discovered it has some human like personality. Does it carry on a conversation, not dealing in numbers? Ever put hit the buttons 2 + 2 = and all the sudden it says ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How old are you seriously? Everyone knows it is 4 for crying out loud how dare you insult me with some trivial little problem. Go read a book and when you have a REAL math problem get back to me, until then...I am going for a mani-pedi. If you have you might want to talk to a person about that. Otherwise no you haven't. Why because it is a machine, designed by a person that wrote programs designed to do math. Most personality is anyone thinks a calculator has is that 8 to 15is age group when they realize they can use digital letters to look like letters (especially when shown upside down).
I don't like war, but it happens, and in some cases it is more important that we enter into a bad situation to stop a worse course of action.
If we have the ability to send up really quiet light weight unmanned planes that can be armed (and can relay images to us almost instantly) then we save money on planes, satellites, pilots, fuel, lives of us our allies, and civilians to a huge degree and I for one believe that most (and I mean over 99%) do comprehend that when they target and take out an known enemy area that that is still a human life and they still have to manage to cope with it.