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

[Stuart Levy]

Wow -- love this bit: "everyone is entitled to human rights, but..."

Where are the web sites referred to?  "we provide a blow by blow response, here" etc.?

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:18:26PM -0500, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> {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.)
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