Obama's Drone Policy vs Intl. Protocols and Trial by Law

FINALLY

  The Obama Doctrine Emerges

NATO’s bombing of Pakistani soldiers this week was a complete disaster—but it highlights the emergence of a cohesive Obama foreign policy, writes The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart. The strike comes after a series of decisions, most significantly the assassination of bin Laden, in which Obama put killing al Qaeda terrorists ahead of America’s relationship with Pakistan. It also shows that the U.S. is moving offshore: securing our interests from the sea and the air—and staying out of the mess on the ground.

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From Alice: There is no WAR on TERROR. (Remember-"we have nothing to fear but fear itself"--from our last disabled president, FDR, who guided us through the Depression and early World War 2?) Instead, there should be highly trained special force ARMY (not our National Guard, which should be the basis of American Homeland Security, of which we have none in my state despite a 4,000 mile open border.) Relying solely on bombing from the air results in unacceptable civilian deaths and mutilation, and crossing international borders to bomb civilians is against all UN protocols for war. After all, that's what 9/11 was--a group of extremists entering the USA and destroying thousands of American and Westerner civilians in New York City. Instead, we must re-identify the individual gangsters running these pockets of destruction, and use an international special ops force to track them down for a speedy trial by law.
Too tedious? No adrenaline rush? Maybe, but no PTSD ex-soldiers and no massacred children. Only the due process of law to arrest those at fault and put them on trial before sentencing.

The National Guard is not our Army, folks. They are supposed to serve at home to protect, assist, and maintain order within our own country. That is Homeland Security. Maybe they should take aim at the US consumption of drugs--opium from Afghanistan, cocaine from Colombia. This is how the extremist groups get their funding. A lot comes from our addictions.