Newton's Third Law suggests that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Is it morally proper for people to develop into militias to defend themselves and act in defiance of terrorist acts of mass murder? If not, what other realistic alternatives do they have? (Voting? Don't make me laugh.)
FTA: "Imagine that... a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using onboard missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors... And finally, imagine that when you turn on your television, you see the perpetrator nation's tuxedo-clad leader cracking stand-up comedy jokes about drone strikes - jokes that prompt guffaws from an audience of that nation's elite... Though we don't like to call it mass murder, the U.S. government's undeclared drone war in Pakistan is devolving into just that. As noted by a former counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus and a former Army officer in Afghanistan, the operation has become a haphazard massacre.
"Press reports suggest that over the last three years drone strikes have killed about 14 terrorist leaders," David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum wrote in 2009. "But, according to Pakistani sources, they have also killed some 700 civilians. This is 50 civilians for every militant killed."
Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/blowback_why_they_try_to_bomb_us_20100513/
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Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on May 18, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=203
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