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| No drone strikes without 'near certainty' of no civilian casualties: Obama |
| 2013-05-24 |
[Dawn]Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, President Barack ObamaMy friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... on Thursday revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the US military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret. Remember that scene in that first movie about Obama, where they were gonna bomb this factory whatever it was, and Michael Douglas didn't want to kill a whole lot of innocent people, so they changed the time on the strike and he still felt bad about the night watchman getting killed, and everybody was all goopy and wished we had that kind of humane-spirited president? (I think the president at the time was George H.W. Bush, who was way too bloody-minded for the humane-spirited among us.) You know, the kind of guy who would bomb a building rather than the activity that went on inside it. And then Bill Clinton did the same thing, because he'd seen the movie, and the Sudanese said he'd destroyed an aspirin factory and umpty-nine people were out of work because of it, and the guy that owned it was ruined financially, and the night watchman's family were howling for American blood. Nobody mentioned the movie where Michael Douglas played Barack Obama much after that. The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, including lifting a moratorium on prisoner transfers to Yemen. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... shutting the prison will still require help from Republicans reluctant to back Obama's call to move some detainees to US prisons and try them in civilian courts. Obama framed his address as an attempt to redefine the nature and scope of terror threats facing the US, noting the weakening of al-Qaeda and the impending end of the US war in Afghanistan. "Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror," Obama said in remarks at the National Defense University. "What we can do, what we must do, is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we defend." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 So all the al Qaeda leaders have to in order to avoid being drone zapped is to keep somebody's child nearby. This will be a win-win (for al Qaeda). Either they dont get zapped, or al Qaeda can show the mangled corpse of the kid, and wail what heartless monsters we are. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-05-24 09:03 |