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2014-06-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Three troubling lessons from the latest US drone strikes

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 we're going back to a period where there was very direct coordination between the Paks and the Americans.

Going back? Please.

An additional fallacy is the notion that there exists terrorist that are not a threat to the US.

This may be what the near-term future of US military force looks like.

Captain obvious.

We still have a long way to go on transparency.

Yes, there is that. But no different from other kinds of strikes. Do you think that a day went by in Clinton's 2nd term that steel wasn't being placed on target somewhere in the world?

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-18 01:15|| 2014-06-18 01:15|| Front Page Top

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