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Like I said, how many people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been killed, and how many soldiers. They are all "collateral damage", to be lamented but not dwelled upon because there is a "bigger problem" at stake. When innocent US citizens start getting killed, how do you know that they won't be "collateral damage" either? I could argue that we already treat our neighbors as such in the war on drugs. US prison population is enormous, but at least we are keeping the kids safe from the pot, all those posts that CR makes in the police abuse thread are unfortunate but accepted.
But these are like my example, where I said this was at worst the war on terror being run badly and could at worst be criticized on those grounds. The same way you can criticize the war on drugs for targeting marijuana users. But the analogy to this case is the government busting a cocaine dealer overseas and you saying "Where will it end?"


Same thing I said here, same thing I said in the OBL thread. Is the bloodshed of those we hate worth the downside of the process we now subject ourselves to?
I don't see how you can see at as anything other than a huge positive.

Oh man, I was going to reply to the rest but I'll just stop at this one, there's too many quotes after all. You just said that if we'd killed Bin Laden back in the 90's, preventing 9/11, you would have said that his bloodshed was not worth the "downside of the process" that we subjected ourselves too.

You're trying to talk these downsides up into some giant proportions. You're being too abstract to think about it with any clarity. Try to describe things in realistic terms.

Don't say "safety" instead of "preventing the deaths of thousands of innocent people". Don't say "bloodshed of those we hate" instead of "killing a terrorist leader who caused the deaths of thousands". Don't talk in wild terms about the president being allowed to do anything when what's at stake is a modest expansion of his powers to run a war.

There's a reason these things are done openly and talked about in speeches by the president you know