Liberals' Targeted Killing Problem

**Progurt** Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:14 pm

Nevertheless, liberals' uncritical embrace of the Obama administration's widespread use of targeted killing represents a significant departure from their stated values. Although the ethics of targeted killing don't parallel the ethics of torture (except as far as disclosure is concerned), they do resemble the ethical debate around detention. For most of the Bush administration, liberals fought against President Bush's attempt to place suspected terror detainees in a legal black hole without habeas rights. Bush's critics understood that the concept of membership in a terrorist group is far more nebulous than being a soldier in a uniformed military. Establishing that the individuals we're treating as terrorists are actually terrorists is therefore a moral imperative.

Of course, as we know all too well, liberals don't give a shit if the right people are being killed or not, so long as it's their political team doing the killing. That's as deep as the principles go. And as we've seen, get a Democrat in office and the liberals will never run out of excuses as to why it's okay to kill anyone in the world at any time, guilty or not.

**gendoikari87** Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:35 pm

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the moderate "left" in this country is just as racist as the far right.

**Progurt** Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:40 pm

gendoikari87 wrote:I've said it once and I'll say it again, the moderate "left" in this country is just as racist as the far right.

I think its nationalism instead of racism. If the arab muslim is in America, and an American, they care. If the arab muslim is in Yemen, fuck em, we got an election to win! Humans who are not part of the Team aren't humans.

comedian Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:16 pm

Liberal democrats are still part of the imperialist machine, they just put a human face on it.
LBJ started the Vietnam War, didn't he?

**gendoikari87** Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:25 pm

Progurt wrote:
gendoikari87 wrote:I've said it once and I'll say it again, the moderate "left" in this country is just as racist as the far right.
I think its nationalism instead of racism. If the arab muslim is in America, and an American, they care. If the arab muslim is in Yemen, fuck em, we got an election to win! Humans who are not part of the Team aren't humans.

Nationalism, racism, it's all illogical prejudice.

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