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In reply to the discussion: US kills two top leaders of terror group that attacked Kenya mall [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)but anything the UN is trying to do is undermined by drone strikes. Do I support the UN's efforts to militarily defeat Al Shahab? Not while the U.S. continues to interfere and make the situation worse.
Thanks to decades of outsiders playing games with people lives and countries, there are no solutions now that don't get a lot of people killed.
But one tactic that does NOT work is sitting in a cozy bunker and flying drones in to attack targets you THINK might be bad guys, then lying about it when that turns out not to be the case.
The government didn't say these were the mall attackers, just prominent Al Shahab thugs.
And upon what do they base these claims, and again, why should I believe them? According to the government, Richard Jewel and Steven Hatfil were terrorists. except they weren't. The U.S. was attacked in the Gulf of Tonken, except it wasn't. The CIA never experimented on unsuspecting civilians with drugs, except when they did. Iraqis stormed into Kuwaiti hospitals and dumped babies on the floor to die, except they didn't. The U.S. government never sold weapons to Iran, except when they did. There was no illegal activity at Abu Ghraib, except there was. Our government, NEVER, EVER its black citizens as lab rats to study syphilis, except when they did precisely that.
How many times do you have to be lied to by a group before you stop believing what they say? I am usually good after three lies, a half dozen at most for people who are at least apologetic and contrite.
You apparently haven't been paying attention to what's been happening between Iran and the US (Bibi is pissed).
Yes, he is pissed, because he may not get his war and he has to redouble his efforts to get the lies out to provoke one.
Obama famously said "I don't oppose all wars...What I am opposed to is a dumb war."
War with Iran, a country three times the size of Iraq would be very dumb. But that doesn't stop people from lobbying for one.