While it is sad that innocent's have died.It is the intention of these terrorist group's to make the civilian populace target's and shield's.This is not a guess it is a fact that they use people as human shield's.
And it is a fact that when engaging the enemy from distance there will be damage and injury to the people in the area of attack.It can be looked at like an attempt to damage the enemy where he lives.Or it can be focused on as a intentional attack on the innocent people of a country we are trying to help and blown out of context and any real understanding of warfare in general?At any rate we were trying to help under Obama and under The Orange Moola we do nada. And if we do something he want's a pat on the back like ha actually did something.
I hope that our intention's have not been mis-understood because of the fact that it appear's that it is not what we do! But how we do it! The military is the first to admit mistake's.And they happen and it is not intentional but a fact of war.
N. Korea is really starting to present itself as a lost child in a world of action's and re-action's. And she is not only lost but badly RUN from a political and military stand point.Too much look at me!We have it all the armies and the bomb's and the man power.But they don't have any brain's on what they need to do to get the rest of the world to stop thinking of them as bad boy's with a really big stick.
Moon is power mad and a freak of unusual order.He will not be satisfied until the US does what he want's and gives into his temper tantrum's and allow's him to bully the free world.This will not happen.Peace Out! Out Of The Mist! shewoff
The difference between Obama and Mr. T is as following:
- Obama had the last word on the drone strikes and would approve them on a case to case basis. This was certainly not always to the military's liking as it prolonged their response time to a potential thread but it minimized collateral damage
- Mr. T gave the power to decide to the commanders in the field because he does not bother about collateral damage. After all he called on his campaign for the families of terrorists to be killed. I read yesterday a report where he was shown once a drone strike and the operator waited until the target moved away from the housing area where his family and other civilians were staying. Mr. T asked: "Why did you wait?" That thinking alone is against all possible international conventions that you can think off.
As for North Korea, let me point to one example, slightly off-topic but it shows what happens when the US promises riches and wealth to a country for aligning themselves with the US. For some of us, "Prague Spring" might call back some memories of 1968, for most it means the season of spring in Prague. However, at the time the tensions were high with over 0.5 Million Soviet and Eastern bloc troops marching into Czechoslovakia to quash an opening and liberalization of the country.
At the time, the only country of the Warsaw Pact that refused to send its troops was Romania, which was led by the infamous Ceaucescu, putting the small country in direct confrontation with the USSR. However, this was so much welcomed by the West and the following years billions of dollars were pouring into country, mostly from the US, as they saw they could have an ally in the midst of the Eastern bloc. Best example is that the country had one of the very few direct commercial flights from an Eastern bloc country to the US. Ceaucescu was hailed as a visionary and in one of his speeches from that time he said pretty much the same words: "Our country will experience new riches and wealth....".
However, hardly any of that money reached the population, in contrary Ceaucescu used it to build up the infamous "Securitate", plus a regime of control and oppression that would lead the population to starvation in the '80's. He had a vision to transform the country into an industrial powerhouse, which in itself is not a bad thing but the way he did it was completely wrong. His best known project is the palace in Bucharest which is the largest civilian building in the world. For years, the US and its allies closed their eyes and everything else as long as Ceacescu was threading to the beat given by them.
FYI, Romania is or better, was one of the very few countries on this planet which could have been totally self-sufficient as the country had every natural resource needed, access to the sea etc. At the end of the "promised riches" there was hardly anything left of the country.
So, every time I hear an US president promising "riches and wealth" to a country, I am rather skeptical.
PS. I was born in 1968 in Romania and emigrated in 1984, hence, I experienced personally what the "new riches and wealth" meant.
