The reason I ask is because the conspiracist in me is wondering how long before we start using these things on our own people as a secretive form of law enforcement? Wellstone anyone? He was against the 'war'. I could see a hard core war-monger interpreting this as a criminal act of treason. And if it's as easy as moving a joystick around in order to make that criminal just go away, then heck - why not? (don't call me on Wellstone - just speaking figuratively and where the trend is going - I'm not going there to say Wellstone was killed.)
Today it's the 'terrorists' we're targeting, and using as an excuse to keep our defense industry nice and bloated. But what happens when the terrorists are defeated? Do we just fire the defense contractors and say "well, it was nice building these little unmanned aircraft that are capable of shooting a flaming laser down somebody's spinal column, but we don't really see a need for that anymore". I doubt that happening. And Mike, to bring up Israel, and then use this as justification for what they do is wrong. Your words were something along the lines of "All right - Israel has been doing this all along. Now don't you see we are right?" This bears repeating since you keep bringing up Israel: There is no difference between Israelis and Palestinians other than their religion - this is why the world doesn't really do anything about it, and just sits back in disgust. The fact that they're still at war over something that most people stopped fighting for hundreds of years ago is in fact disgusting. To continue on and try to make up other reasons is silly and ignorant. If nobody was blatantly religious, nobody would know who to kill. The hardline religion stops, the violence stops. The fact that you're willing to die just because you're so attached to your religious beliefs is your choice, and somewhat respectable, but don't expect the rest of the world to support that. Shooting people with rockets is TEMPORARY; in the long term it's just more fuel to the fire. Lightening up your religious beliefs, and not discriminating against the people who have conflicting religious beliefs will fix it. Since that won't happen with either the Jew's or the Muslim's, then you'll just have to keep killing each other. Just because one side uses sophisticated technology doesn't make it right. I know you'll say it's the Arabs who are instigating and that you're just trying to live in peace, but they're saying the same thing about you. You should also know that the US is taking advantage of the situation over there - how you still don't see this is beyond me. Confilct in that region is what keeps the US in control of the precious oil. Without conflict, that region might *gasp* prosper, and actually establish itself. Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:11 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Robotic assassinations. > > > Surprised nobody has brought up the robotic assassination the > CIA conducted > on Sunday in Yemen. > > http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20021104/ciadrone.html > > Basically they used an unmanned Predator aircraft to fire a > Hellfire missile > at some terrorists driving in a car. > > What do you think - cowardly or patriotic? > > Adam. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
