It still doesnt make it right, nor is it any sane or logic reasoning behind the drone use.
Ever time I hear someone explain the wars as an legit response to the 9/11 attack, it sounds as an "excuse" a kid would make after a school massacre. Oh look he say, there was this evil kid who hit and kicked me that other day, so I took my dads machine gun and extracted my revenged. The other children and teachers sheltered that bully, so they deserved what they got. It was justice, he said.
There are no sane reasoning behind such claim. There are also no sane reasoning behind any claimed connection between 9/11 and the current wars or drone usage. I understand that the kid received a great injustice from the bully. I can understand the need for revenge. 9/11 was also a great injustice where people craved for revenge. But sanity left quick after, and we got schools with dead bodies and two wars. That, and drones.
Well, the government is constitutionally obliged to defend the citizenry. Any President that went on TV and said 'you know, we sort of deserved that due to our past foreign policy, so we should take it on the chin' would almost certainly have been impeached. Now I do see whare you're coming from, and somewhat agree, but I'm making n argument about what's legal as opposed to what's right. I think, for example, that once we withdraw our troops from Afghanistan Congress should sunset the AUMF and define the scope of Presidential authority to fight future terrorism much more narrowly.
Ever time I hear someone explain the wars as an legit response to the 9/11 attack, it sounds as an "excuse" a kid would make after a school massacre. Oh look he say, there was this evil kid who hit and kicked me that other day, so I took my dads machine gun and extracted my revenged. The other children and teachers sheltered that bully, so they deserved what they got. It was justice, he said.
There are no sane reasoning behind such claim. There are also no sane reasoning behind any claimed connection between 9/11 and the current wars or drone usage. I understand that the kid received a great injustice from the bully. I can understand the need for revenge. 9/11 was also a great injustice where people craved for revenge. But sanity left quick after, and we got schools with dead bodies and two wars. That, and drones.