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<blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 5956055" data-attributes="member: 58700">i don&#039;t disagree its too easy to make a mistake. to that point though the drone strike is new and exciting technology that maybe confuses the issue. the tactic is not new though just in the old days my days a spotter in a combat theatre would call in artillery or other weaponry on a group of suspected combatants. chances are there would be a big crater where the combatants were and you would never no if you made the right call. there is a reason many of us ex military from that time period use the expression kill em all and let god sort them out. the drone does give you the ability to better observe and identify and the ability to record the event and thus determine if the decision was the right one. the whole problem with the Obama drone issue is if you observe an american in a combat zone with other combantants by drone how do you send troops in the area quickly to capture and try without putting those troops at risk and quickly enough to actually capture them.&nbsp; Ideally you would like to be able to assess the risks carefully before you would fly troops into an area of unknown threats.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newfie, post: 5956055, member: 58700"] i don't disagree its too easy to make a mistake. to that point though the drone strike is new and exciting technology that maybe confuses the issue. the tactic is not new though just in the old days my days a spotter in a combat theatre would call in artillery or other weaponry on a group of suspected combatants. chances are there would be a big crater where the combatants were and you would never no if you made the right call. there is a reason many of us ex military from that time period use the expression kill em all and let god sort them out. the drone does give you the ability to better observe and identify and the ability to record the event and thus determine if the decision was the right one. the whole problem with the Obama drone issue is if you observe an american in a combat zone with other combantants by drone how do you send troops in the area quickly to capture and try without putting those troops at risk and quickly enough to actually capture them. Ideally you would like to be able to assess the risks carefully before you would fly troops into an area of unknown threats. [/QUOTE]

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