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Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 February 2013 07:50:47PM 2 points [-]

the baffling ones are things like support of drone warfare coming from people who believe in universal healthcare. (I can see support of one, or the other, but not both at the same time. And yet people exist who do support both at the same time.)

I am baffled by your bafflement. Kill your enemies, save your allies. Where's the contradiction?

Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 February 2013 08:29:58PM 0 points [-]

Sorry about the confusion; I just realized exactly where the disconnect is. I was discussing drone warfare in another forum, specifically the use of drones against a nation's own citizens. Absent that context my statement doesn't make much sense at all, no.

Does it make more sense when I clarify that I'm referring to the use of drone warfare against a nation's own citizens without judicial oversight?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 February 2013 08:34:23AM 0 points [-]

Does it make more sense when I clarify that I'm referring to the use of drone warfare against a nation's own citizens without judicial oversight?

Which country is that happening in? But presumably that government, rightly or wrongly, has decided that some of its citizens are enemies.

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