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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:18 AM Original message |
U.S. asserts unilateral terrorist capture or kill doctrine |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. The Obama Doctrine... |
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newfie11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. So does this mean we are going to invade other countries? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Not invade. Just bomb and raid. n/t |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Same as it ever was. |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:07 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Whether that's true or not, |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:37 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Agreed on all points. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 02:11 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. Really? Then quite a few of your other posts on this thread are incomplete, to put it in the very |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
38. How about some examples of one nation making targeted killings within |
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Synicus Maximus (828 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #38 |
56. Leon Trotsky comes to mind. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 07:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
60. Is that supposed to be a justification? It applies equally well to rape, murder, robbery... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
35. I'm assuming you deemed that so obviously false that the sarcasm emote would |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
59. An invasion implies occupation. n/t |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
54. If the US was allowing radicals to train for and plan attacks against another nation... |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 10:11 AM Response to Reply #54 |
55. What if those radicals are the actual political leaders of a country? |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #55 |
62. Although a free state has the legal right to attack a totalitarian state; however... |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. I don't like how the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions are invaldiated |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. You mean those WE decide are terrorists. |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 10:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yes, exactly. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
39. Maybe not "the" terrorists, but also terrorists. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. What part of the Constiution or the Geneva Conventions are invalidated? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 02:00 AM Response to Reply #30 |
40. Have you read the Geneva Conventions? BTW, the Geneva Conventions are not |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 02:42 AM Response to Reply #40 |
44. Yes. I am of the quaint belief that if one asserts that a law is broken, one should be able to cite |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:01 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Huh? None of that is the least bit responsive to my post. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
37. Terra! Terra! Terra! More than one President has used that to jusfity the unjustifiable. |
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stuckinarut (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. I can't wait til the apologists get here... |
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pasto76 (835 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. WOA, hold the fuck on there a minute bub |
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redixdoragon (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Amazing, that here of all places |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Name me one president who has not sent troops on capture/kill missions without declaring war. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. Don't know about all that, but which laws allowed this? And do you have a link to where those guys |
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StarsInHerHair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. yeah, those who think this is fine DONT expect it to come back at them, |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 02:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
41. Yes, the rule of law is so fucking inconvenient and so fucking liberal. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 07:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
52. Well, it were wrong then and it's wrong now. |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I am convinced that if Obama were to randomly select 20 people off the street |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Yes, because people who have declared war on the US are "random"? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 02:08 AM Response to Reply #23 |
42. What isn't the case? That some DUers will defend anything that Obama has done? |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. Thought Criminals Beware |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
7. Wellthen, by that logic Iraq and Afghanistan can start ot bomb and kill our guys too. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 10:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Correct. How long before some country decides since we can do it, they can also. |
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Maine_Nurse (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Hmm, are you saying it has not happened here? Heard of the Mossad? KGB perhaps? |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. They always have done so. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:33 AM Response to Reply #24 |
47. And we thought them criminal. Did you have a point? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. Morons. Buffoons. Fools. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
15. Fucking stupid. It's NOT unilateral just because WE say so. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. It's not even unilateral. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:38 AM Response to Reply #25 |
48. Having forces capable of this does not mean every nation is doing it. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
16. The difference between Shrubby and Obama on foreign policy is very little. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Israel disagrees. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
49. Not so sure you're even colorably correct about that. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
61. Certainly what "Israel" (hardliners) thinks is all that counts. |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
17. When other nations assert their right to make pre-emptive strikes against targets in the |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Exactly. Like the Weather Underground, who were careful to only bomb empty buildings... |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. The Unabomber agrees with you. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:41 AM Response to Reply #17 |
50. They have no such right to assert. Neither does Obama. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Not to mention, dumping bodies into the ocean is not a burial |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #50 |
57. Exactly the issue at hand: such right is reserved only to a superpower willing to use its vast |
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BetsysGhost (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
19. Funny that |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-17-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. What international law is broken under this policy? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:36 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Starting with the most basic, each nation is sovereign over what goes on within its own borders. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 01:48 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Right--which means that the international community should butt out of human rights abuses |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:11 AM Response to Reply #36 |
46. What you seem to be implying is that we should ignore international law that |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 06:31 AM Response to Reply #36 |
63. Interesting response ... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 12:21 PM Response to Reply #32 |
58. What happens when they can't exercise sovereignty inside their borders? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-18-11 06:43 AM Response to Reply #29 |
51. Self delete |
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