While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
It is largely meaningless. Like most of these groups they are decentralized, and will continue on as before. This is largely to make the administration claim they have "done something" of importance. Means about as much as when they killed some minor underlining in AQ-I or the like. It will change nothing, he was yet another Lieutenant or Captain, and it will continue as before.
Maybe not emotionally satisfying, but it is justice, and it sends a message. Our intelligence capabilities are exceptionally good at this.
I find the whole concept disturbing, or I should say having the obvious potential for being very disturbing. It is basically assassination, which is a sort of dirty form of warfare. Obviously I am not feeling any sympathy for these specific individuals who were assassinated, radical muslims who obviously were involved in an effort to kill innocent people and wanted to impose their deranged theocratic system. But this type of thing that could be used against them could almost as easily be used against others. If assassination becomes just seen as normal, that is going to create a very bad environment, I really think. These things have a tendency of becoming normalized over time and progressing. Yes, it might be muslim terrorists today, but who will it be next in a few decades from now?
Does that mean you find killing in other ways emotionally satisfying? Do you think it's a good idea to send in any more of our military at the risk of their lives? Haven't we lost enough of our people and allies? The bottom line is the bad people need to be stopped. Why does it matter how that gets done?
So you feel "emotional satisfaction" when people are KILLED from close range instead? Something is NOT right!
Drone strikes can terrorize and really piss the enemy off especially if innocents end up as collateral damage. I think they will create multi generational enemies seeking revenge. On the flip side, they are quite efficient, cost effective and can be surgical for the most part.
I don't buy it. Team Joe is desperately trying to salvage whatever scraps of their pride and credibility is left, and so they drop a robobomb on a random goat herder and pretend like they cut the head off the snake. I have no trust in these people. How could I? How could anyone?
We did not even have agricultural experts in the military introduce new cross breeds of goats remarkably suited to that environment?
