How stupid can someone be? If it's a world power, it sets a dangerous precedence. Israel has always done this under occupied territories. Killing the resistance fighters and terming their resistance as terrorism. Now USA does the same. The recent are it's airstrikes within puppy pakistan in order to kill Zawahiri. Zawahiri - The terrorist. Why is he a terrorist? He kills innocents for no reason!! No...he self confessed that in his orchestrated bombings of Jordan recently, he got his intelligence flawed and he never intended to kill innocents but a few high ranking US officers scheduled there for a meeting.
So, where lies the difference!!
By all means US strikes (within pakistan or outside it's borders) is unjust, and illegal (depending on which argument you take). The U.S. is relying on an overwhelming use of force that depends heavily on electronic gadgetry to deliver a lethal force. That lethal force is disproportionate to the aim of killing one suspected terrorist in the village. Hence you have 18 civilian casualties, instead of just one terrorist. And it is now claimed the terrorist was not even there. Just like Bush's preemptive war against the wrong country, wrong people for all the wrong reasons, this air strike by a drone is also unjust and immoral. As such, it will only bring adverse and inauspicious results to the U.S.
Can you imagine if the U.S. perpetuates this policy of hitting villages, communities, and cities using massive bombs just because it suspects a terrorist hide there? It will have killed mostly civilians in untold numbers, as all U.S. air raids do since Vietnam. It makes this kind of warfare heinous because it is an arrogant and mindless use of brute power. It is an accursed method of warfare, and bodes very ill for the U.S.
As late as 5,000 years ago, there were established by the Vedic culture the laws of engagement. There was no need for armies to annihilate themselves in the field of battle if the commanders instead agree to fight each others mano-a-mano. Whoever wins the hand-to-hand combat brings home the spoil of war, and that sometimes included the whole armies of the defeated king or commander. With the passing of time, and the degradation of adherence to cultural laws, we have come to a point now where you don't really know who your enemies are. "Suspicion" therefore preempts facts. U.S. bombs "suspects" fueled by suspicion and paranoia. Hence, we are killing the wrong persons, who include women, children and the old, and their working animals and demolish and destroy their homes and habitat. That's another "NO, NO, NO" in the warfare rules of righteous times. Any combatant who did that is cursed for all times by these acts. His slide to hell and perdition is already writ in the scroll of destiny and preordained. The curse of old is just as effective in the now, especially in this very worrisome Age.
The Pentagon of Rumsfeld should send its elite commando units and navy seals and black berets to surgically take out these suspects. Then there's honor in the act when you eschew killing civilians. Whether you therefore are successful in taking out the "suspect" or not, you go home happy in the thought that no unnecessary collateral damage were done to non-combatants and civilians. You have pride in the integrity of your calling.
But that is not the case in this present stupid war. No wonder soldiers go home emotionally drained, disoriented, savaged and mentally sick. And many of them will never fully recover. It's a very damaging scar they will carry throughout the rest of their lives.
That's part of the curse inherent in waging an unjust and immoral war on a self-created enemy that never really existed.
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