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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Search Etzioni's websites, I suppose. He's been saying this nonsense for a 
while. Doug just got hit with some of it. I'll ask him if you like.

Stuart Levy wrote:
> 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.)
>> -- 
>> 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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