[Peace-discuss] [Fwd: [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones]

[C. G. Estabrook]

{Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer treats some academic dreck with 
the degree of respect it deserves.  --CGE}


[I always hated this communitarian shit, but this takes the cake. For 
some reason this asshole added me to his email list.]

From: Amitai Etzioni <icps at GWU.EDU>
Date: March 30, 2010 5:03:51 PM EDT
To: COMNET at HERMES.GWU.EDU
Subject: The case for drones. Comments please.
Reply-To: Amitai Etzioni <icps at GWU.EDU>

Jane Mayer made the liberal case against drones in The New Yorker 
(October 26, 2009). We provide a blow by blow response here and discuss 
the issue on Talk of the Nation, here. Everyone is entitled to human 
rights, but we cannot wait for terrorists to strike before we go after 
them. And, although little known, the US military has a carefully 
crafted procedure for determining which drone strikes are allowed and 
which would cause too much collateral damage.

The onus for avoiding collateral damage altogether is on the terrorists. 
They have to stop exploiting their status as civilians, stop using 
civilians as human shields, and homes--as headquarters, as locations to 
store ammunition and for snipers to ply their deadly trade. (For more, 
see Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy [Yale 2007] and 
our website.)
-- 
Amitai Etzioni
University Professor
The George Washington University
1922 F St NW, Rm 413
Washington, DC 20052
ph: 202.994.8190
fax: 202.9941606



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