America Kills Taliban Leader, Taliban Vows to Punish Pakistan
On November 1st, a US drone did the whole world (and especially Pakistan) a favor by blowing up Hakimullah Mehsud, the previous commander of the Taliban in Pakistan. According to Dera Ismail Khan in "New Taliban Leader Vows Revenge Attacks in Pakistan" (Reuters), on November 8th, the newly-named leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Mullah Fazlullah
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I accept the reality that in warfare innocents will get killed as part of the price of killing enemies. This has been the nature of war since it began, and as our drone campaign has been more humanitarian than have been most campaigns of strategic bombardment, I am actually proud of our record in that regard.
If we swear off all military campaigns which kill innocents, then we must perforce swear off warfare in general. Doing so would only yield the world to our foes, almost all of whom are far less humanitarian than are ourselves.
We should not even be in other countries, ...
Shall I take it that you disapprove of all foreign alliances, and all interventions to protect or avenge anyone save American citizens?
... no one has attacked the United States of America, unless of course you actually believe the "official" account of 9/11.
Of course I believe that Al Qaeda attacked the United States of America on 9/11. Not only does the evidence indicate this, but Al Qaeda has repeatedly BOASTED of doing so. Whom do you blame, and what steps do you believe the United States of America should take to hold them accountable?
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I'm quite aware that some other buildings were destroyed on 9/11, mostly because the two main towers of the World Trade Center in part fell on them.
... and that jet planes brought them down ...
There were numerous witnesses and lots of film footage of exactly that happening, plus aircraft debris found in the wreckage. In addition, the impacts and fires were adequate to cause the observed structural effects -- so that would be my operating assumption, yes. Though I do also have my Smaug Theory, which should indicate just how seriously I take the Truther nonsense.
... I will not waste my time since the even mainstream sources are now figuring out that the "official" account of 9/11 is pure bullshit.
It's much more plausible to believe in an American conspiracy involving hundreds of American officials to murder thousands of innocent Americans for murky ends than to believe that Muslim terrorists could attack us!
Al Qaeda? Our enemy?
Yep. The one we've been fighting on and off since 1993.
You mean the same "enemy" the CIA is supplying with arms in Syria?
Obama's foolish support of Al-Qaeda linked factions in Syria does not retroactively make them friendly to us. In fact, it doesn't even make them friendly to us right now, which is why Obama's actions are foolish.
Al Qaeda are whatever they need to be to reach a specified political objective as directed by the CIA and Israeli Mossad.
Well of course. After all, only America (and maybe Israel) are Real, and so therefore they obviously control all factions in the Mideast.
Anyway, you go right on believing in the almighty American Empire. With attitudes like yours which support genocide ...
??? Genocide of whom?
... and war crimes ...
What war crimes? (Note: inflicting less collateral damage than is common in strategic bombardment is hardly a "war crime."
... it's no wonder the rest of the world hates us.
Hates us? According to you, they've done nothing to harm us! If 9/11 was an inside job, what evidence do you have of any effective hatred of us on the part of the rest of the world.
Hint: you just sawed off the limb you were standing on. Not a good debating technique!
And if the rest of the world hates us for our genocide and war crimes, why do they distinctly fail to "hate" such Powers as Russia and Turkey for their actual "genocide and war crimes," not to mention the extensive war crimes carried out by the Muslim Terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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