Why Is It Our Duty To Defend the World?

Lucrum said:
Sec. of Defense Hagel to Review Allowing Transgendered Soldiers.
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I can see it now... enlistment and reenlistment bonuses in the form of sex change operations to level the playing field for those who are "disadvantaged" by gender identity issues.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
Obama went to Tokyo to reassure Japan that, should China attempt to seize its Senkaku Islands, America will fight at her side.
He reassured Seoul of our commitment to defend South Korea.

He went to Manila to reassure the Filipinos, who threw our Navy out of Subic Bay at the end of the Cold War, that America will be there in any clash with Beijing in the South China Sea.
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One suspects there is not much belief in the words of The One. I mean, would you believe him? I sure wouldn't. That's one advantage new age "intellectual" democrats have - they can pretend to rattle the saber, yet it is well understood to be a joke. If some republican did it - even a limp-wristed RINO like McCain - it would be taken far more seriously.
 
TGregg said:
One suspects there is not much belief in the words of The One. I mean, would you believe him? I sure wouldn't. That's one advantage new age "intellectual" democrats have - they can pretend to rattle the saber, yet it is well understood to be a joke. If some republican did it - even a limp-wristed RINO like McCain - it would be taken far more seriously.
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Drones will fill the sky
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
updated 8:56 PM EDT, Tue May 13, 2014

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"The CIA drone campaign in Pakistan has killed 58 militant leaders, according to a count by the New America Foundation. Thirty-five militant leaders have also been killed in Yemen. Meanwhile, at least 339 civilians have been killed as well as at least 2,200 foot soldiers in militant groups in Pakistan and Yemen. At least 230 other people were reported killed, though it was not clear from reliable news accounts if they were militants or civilians.

"Indeed, using the most conservative estimates from a database of drone attacks maintained by the New America Foundation, the Obama administration authorized the killing of more than 2,400 people in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen from the time it first assumed office until the end of March 2014. (Using the least conservative estimates from that database, the total number of people killed was almost 4,000.)

"Put another way, using the most conservative estimates of the numbers of people killed in drone strikes by the Obama administration, they amount to three times the total number of the some 800 prisoners at the Guantanamo prison camp placed there by the Bush administration. As President Barack Obama reportedly told some of his aides, "Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was going to be a strong suit of mine."

"Osama bin Laden recognized the devastation that such drone strikes were inflicting on his organization, writing a lengthy memo about the issue that was later recovered in the compound in Pakistan where he was killed three years ago.

"In the October 2010 memo to a lieutenant, bin Laden advised his men to leave the Pakistani tribal regions where the drone strikes have been overwhelmingly concentrated. Bin Laden wrote, "I am leaning toward getting most of our brothers out of the area" and urged his followers to depart for the remote Afghan province of Kunar, explaining that "due to its rough terrain and many mountains, rivers, trees, it can accommodate hundreds of the brothers without them being spotted by the enemy."

"The civilian casualty rate from drone strikes has been dropping dramatically in recent years. According to New America Foundation data, the casualty rate in Pakistan for civilians and also for "unknowns" -- those who were not identified in news reports definitively as either militants or civilians -- was around 40% under President George W. Bush when the drone program was in its infancy. It has come down to about 7% under Obama."

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