Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187636)	5/28/2006 11:11:59 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why don't you answer your own question? That would be good also. "What would you have done in this case??"

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187636)	5/28/2006 11:22:42 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What in the world are you so excited about? You use nonsensical labels to justify torture and detention without even indictment and then you blast the government for trying to follow the rules? What is wrong with you? Your attitudes are so un-American that they're unrecognizable. The idea of the US isn't thuggery, revenge, murder and the lowering of standards to the lowest common denominator. The idea of the US is to be BETTER THAN THAT. Jeeze Loueeze. Do you think before you think these thoughts or are you just downloading them from the rightwing nitwit media?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187636)	5/29/2006 8:02:10 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There was a perfect example of this. Ayman Zawahiri, #2 of Al Qai'da, was traveling in a car with some reported unknown "civilians", heading for Pakistan. We had the shot (from what I was told)... perfect opportunity to take him down with a Hellfire launched from a Predator. But someone "upstairs" decided that since we didn't know if they were terrorists, or actual "civilians, we couldn't kill him. Think of that.. We had the chance to take out the operational and planning head of Al Qai'da. In terms of WWII, he would have been the equivalent of "Mussolini"... But we couldn't do it because of "rules" about not targeting civilians. What would you have done in this case?? With that description, you clearly don't launch a Hellfire. And you tend to phrase [distort] to a favorable position. If I made an adjustment for that, the situation was probably closer to: Hey...look there's a vehicle headed for Pakistan. Maybe terrorists are in that vehicle. Who knows? There's a 50-50 shot. jttmab