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Anonymous pp — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:05:37 +0000

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Not everyone can afford a missile-equipped drone. If we're going to be supporting targeted assassination of nuclear scientists or trumping up nonsensical terrorist plots in India or acting as the de facto government of Yemen in announcing drone strikes, we're going to be building up the urge for asymmetric warfare. Israel has been urging war with Iran for quite a few years now with the US supporting the talk- is continuous sabre rattling over a decade not a form of terrorism, especially backed by the major arms supplier and regime changer in the region? Our drone strikes create massacres too. Our intervention in Iraq resulteed in 9 years of civilian casualties in civil war and retribution killings. While maybe Iran doesnt get the difference, maybe we're drawing too many distinctions as well. Israeli behavior in the west bank and gaza is overwhelmingly focused on civilian retribution-from checkpoints to embargos. Maybe it's time to recognize we're all too clever for our own good and just encouraging more and more violence

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Michael Maiello — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:55:21 +0000

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I've been guilty of this in the past, and this might be having just finished reading "Hitch-22" talking, but it really seems absurd to see the Iranian government claiming moral equivalence with the U.S.

Yes, we do believe in good and bad assassinations. But our government is ultimately accountable to its people over such issues. Accountable enough? Are the people informed enough? You know I don't think the answer is yes to either. But Iran's mullahs and dictators can shut up about it.

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