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Ford_Prefect

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5. Could this attack be a response to the Drone wars?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:51 PM

Apr 2013

Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2013, 08:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Consider all the innocent people who have been murdered at the push of a button who were just celebrating a wedding, or shopping in the street market, or just happened to be in the wrong crowd at the wrong location when the drone flew over.

I have to say I can see that kind of event pushing someone to act this way...attacking innocents at a celebration.

I do not advocate that this would be fair or rude justice of any kind. The people murdered by drones in another part of the world did not deserve to die or be maimed, or see their family, friends, and community destroyed. Neither did anyone on Boylston Street, or at MIT or in Watertown.

When our government acts with impunity it invites a similar response...and innocents will be hurt no matter who they voted for. When our government acts outside the law it tends to put we the people into harm's way.

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Highlight:

Chechnya’s President On Suspects: ‘Seek The Roots Of Evil In America’ [View all] DonViejo Apr 2013 OP

Instagram? Was Twitter too informal? nt onehandle Apr 2013 #1

Instagram is traditional in Chechnya Enrique Apr 2013 #3

Russia still thinks we hide them jakeXT Apr 2013 #2

This part is just weird: kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #22

if he was set up, he acted like it jakeXT Apr 2013 #23

Actually it makes sense if you know how medical school nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #24

"It would be logical if he was detained and investigated," nobodyspecial Apr 2013 #4

Could this attack be a response to the Drone wars? Ford_Prefect Apr 2013 #5

american terrorists = good, it's only bad when "foreign" terrorists attack us nt msongs Apr 2013 #6

Valid question. AtheistCrusader Apr 2013 #7

Would you feel that way... ag_dude Apr 2013 #8

I am saying this could be one of the outcomes of an unjust war for oil. Ford_Prefect Apr 2013 #9

You sound eerily similar to the right wing nuts ag_dude Apr 2013 #12

Nothing does indeed. Nothing I said advocates they ought to be. You need to read more carefully. Ford_Prefect Apr 2013 #15

Analyzing your own actions and questioning them ag_dude Apr 2013 #17

So it is your contention that we should have continued to fight in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia? Ford_Prefect Apr 2013 #18

Exactly, Ford_Perfect Carolina Apr 2013 #16

Perhaps if we were bombing the NRA headquarters Fumesucker Apr 2013 #10

Yep. And people like that should be under scrutiny. nt MOTRDemocrat Apr 2013 #13

Obama and Putin talk, I wonder what they really said jakeXT Apr 2013 #11

Ramzan Kafirov is a vile little thug, and his words aren't usually worth their weight in rat feces Alamuti Lotus Apr 2013 #14

Since these two were not born in America, why would their roots be in America? LisaL Apr 2013 #19

He was not talking about the family of the bombers, ZombieHorde Apr 2013 #20

This guy's a thug. Daniel537 Apr 2013 #21