2. Objectives: to examine and compare Pres Bush's and Pres Obama's tactics in the war on terror.
Read Inside the Killing Machine: Article
1. Summarize the article into 1-2 paragraphs
2. comment on the following
- Do you think President Obama's actions are legal? Why or why not?
- Why do you think President Obama uses the Predator strikes a lot more than President Bush?
- In the article the "lethal operation" decisions made by the President and Mr. Rizzo are described as morally complex. Describe how you would handled the moral complexities of the decision if you were in Mr. Rizzo's shoes
Place your response in the class basket today or tomorrow in the current event folder.
I think president Obama's actions are perfectly legal as they are in the interest and concern of national security and anti-terror operations. Drones are a lagitimate military tactic and are used on the battlefield to support our troops more often than most people realize. Personally, I do not understand why anyone would consider the military use of spy and attack drones to be illegal and I agree with the increased use of them on the battlefield. The drones are extremely accurate which avoids most calateral damage, and most importantly, they are unmanned, which decreases the risk for our soldiers and allows are military to focus on more immediate threats where they are, instead of wasting valuable reasorses and time hunting down one target.
ReplyDeleteI think Obama has lost his mind, and he is going out of control. Like the good old saying" what goes around, comes around" If we use the Drones as our weapon, most likely that same weapon will be used against us, causing higher death rate.The Drone is the weapon of choice, but it could also be someone putting a bullet in your head and the number of such killings, are carried out mostly by Predators in Pakistan, and has increased dramatically during the Obama administration. I think Obama needs his helmet and m16 in hand, and then then send his bad self to Pakistan or whatever and shoot a bullet or two and then we will see how he would be talking.
ReplyDeleteI think Obama was legal because he is keeping most people in a safe area other then killing more then who could be killed. Though war will never stop between anyone with the United States we need to have military around the world spying and doing what is safe for the country. You go into the army or war agreeing to serve for your country, so then why would anyone think its illegal to have spies and other people across the world, it was those people choices.
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