'The drone program is targeting Al-Qaeda’s leadership and operatives, as well as that of affiliated organizations, because they have targeted the U.S.'
I think what you mean is, 'Some Saudis flew planes into the WTC in 2001, so the US can now do anything to anyone anywhere forever'.
It's interesting that you have such insight into the behaviour and intentions of the 'suspected militants'. Some deluded folks still think such allegations need to be tested through due process. Some have even been known to denigrate extrajudicial executions. But that was when others did it. As for the inevitable 'collateral damage', well no price is to high for THEM to pay for YOUR illusion of safety.
Speaking as a severe critic of the 'Western' schools system I was subjected to myself and watched my own children endure, I have to say that the elephant in the room is that there's a lot more to education than building a school. As far as I can tell, no child, boy or girl, is educated in the public school system in Pakistan. The rote 'learning', which is apparently all their teachers know, leads to a situation where PhD students have no idea what 'analysis' or 'research' mean. When you read the theses their teachers have written, you'd think they might be about ready to enter year 7 at a decent American public school. It's a tragedy for girls to have to fight for education, but I just don't have a word to express the irony and sadness of risking death just to go to a Pakistani primary school.
Meanwhile, the intellectual Pakistani 'liberals' I'm in contact with applaud the drone strikes, notwithstanding the 'collateral damage' and blowback, presumably on the strength of an unexamined faith that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'.
Leaving aside the little matter of the cynicism and injustice of the UN's infamous 1947 resolution to partition Palestine (UNGAR 181), which arguably violated the principles of the UN Charter (http://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2010/10/26/the-myth-of-the-u-n-creation-of-israel/) and the Palestinians' right to self-determination (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/diplomacy/Khalidi,%2520Revisiting%2520the%25201947%2520UN%2520Partition%2520Resolution.pdf&sa=U&ei=NIfPUZKRG8PZrQeH44GgAQ&ved=0CAkQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFa6soNVa_WZ8W3SocpW8g6gGaqqw), how does it come to pass that the entire International Community™ recognises without embarrassment Israel's acquisition of territory by force in 1948-49?
'The drone program is targeting Al-Qaeda’s leadership and operatives, as well as that of affiliated organizations, because they have targeted the U.S.'
I think what you mean is, 'Some Saudis flew planes into the WTC in 2001, so the US can now do anything to anyone anywhere forever'.
It's interesting that you have such insight into the behaviour and intentions of the 'suspected militants'. Some deluded folks still think such allegations need to be tested through due process. Some have even been known to denigrate extrajudicial executions. But that was when others did it. As for the inevitable 'collateral damage', well no price is to high for THEM to pay for YOUR illusion of safety.
Speaking as a severe critic of the 'Western' schools system I was subjected to myself and watched my own children endure, I have to say that the elephant in the room is that there's a lot more to education than building a school. As far as I can tell, no child, boy or girl, is educated in the public school system in Pakistan. The rote 'learning', which is apparently all their teachers know, leads to a situation where PhD students have no idea what 'analysis' or 'research' mean. When you read the theses their teachers have written, you'd think they might be about ready to enter year 7 at a decent American public school. It's a tragedy for girls to have to fight for education, but I just don't have a word to express the irony and sadness of risking death just to go to a Pakistani primary school.
Meanwhile, the intellectual Pakistani 'liberals' I'm in contact with applaud the drone strikes, notwithstanding the 'collateral damage' and blowback, presumably on the strength of an unexamined faith that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'.