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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism — and so do Democrats
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/01/republican-candidates-defend-killing-civilians-to-fight-terrorism-and-so-do-democrats/There has been a lot of consternation expressed in the media at a series of statements by Republican presidential candidates during their most recent debate and elsewhere in which a number of them appeared to be advocating the large-scale killing of civilians through aerial bombardment as a legitimate means of defeating the so-called Islamic State. (IS)
These statements did not simply rationalize military operations that result in large numbers of civilian deaths, which politicians in both parties have supported for decades, but actually advocate the killing of civilians as a legitimate tactic in counter-terrorism warfare.
Lets put aside for a moment the irony of killing innocent people as a means of fighting a terrorist group that kills innocent people and the fact that it would result in blowback that would almost certainly increase the threat of terrorist attacks against the United States. Such operations would constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and other principles of international law to which the United States, like all governments and armed groups, is legally bound.
Yet the three leading Republican candidates for president are not bothered about that. Donald Trump has called on killing families of terrorist suspects. Ted Cruz has called on carpet bombing Syrian cities controlled by IS and see if sand can glow in the dark. When moderator Hugh Hewitt asked Ben Carson, So you are OK with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians? he responded, You got it. You got it.
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Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism — and so do Democrats (Original Post)
eridani
Jan 2016
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nc4bo
(17,651 posts)1. Warmongers should be forced to give up something precious to them
every single time they open their mouths. That goes for politicians in all political parties.
Where has our humanity gone?
Then folks wonder why many of our politicians are featured in terror videos. We ARE also terrorists.
D'uh.
sonofspy777
(360 posts)2. Costa Gravas
State of Siege
WE are the terrorists that create REGIME CHANGE!
Disgusting.