Comments on: UPDATED: The Year of the Killer Drone

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:55:52 +0000

Thanks for posting Col. Wilkinson – funny how people like him and Jim Webb and many military types see the idiocy of our policy (and, as he mentioned, many Israeli military people want Netanyahu and Liberman to tone down their rhetoric) while chickenhawks like Kristol and Limbaugh and Gingrich scream and yell for more wars….

By: NGPM

NGPM — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:08:52 +0000

I fear that I live in just exactly the spot of the world where they will cross over to get to Iran for the war…

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:07 +0000

In reference to the video and Rebel’s difference of opinion of the coming date for war with Iran; plus, Obama’s love of the drone: I don’t think we can make a prediction of when or even of if we will go to war against Iran. In the Middle East, we have assisted in the destruction of secular governments, which have then gone religious. Iran is already a religious country. Syria is the only large nation with a secular government, left- it’s the next target. Syria is harder than Libya but doable. Iran is very capable of defending itself militarily with WW3 technology. Not in a sustained war but, longer than any other nation there. Iran for all its foolish rhetoric and posturing is doing the one thing necessary to keep the bully away- standing up to the US. The Iranians are countering Obama’s drones, again standing up where Pakistan blusters and backs off. North Korea did the same thing and eventually the US moved to other easier places to dominate. Man, I hate having to say that about my own country. One day someone will push the wrong person’s button but, it’s anyone’s guess when. We could go bankrupt first.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:29:17 +0000

While I have never considered the Death Penalty to be some great cure for anything, I have no per se objection for use in heinous crimes (like my nurse friend who was brutalized for days by this sadistic thug – who is still alive because the Supreme Court said that at age 17.5, he was too young to appreciate that killing was wrong). Ok, many on the left oppose the death penalty… and I understand their reasons …..

BUT – if their hero, Messiah Barack Obama, targets American citizens (including 16 year olds), children, etc. with NO DUE PROCESS OF LAW, these same “progressives” applaud like seals.

Glenn Greenwald, at least, has the honesty to denounce these leftist hypocrites who support civil liberties and oppose wars ONLY when carried out by Bush/Cheney.

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:39:48 +0000

Wilkerson’s way off re “3 years”. Just looking at current US carrier battle group positioning and refit schedules…unless the DC gang is even stupider than they appear, and try to do Iran w only 2-3 groups – the Iran War will begin c. July-September 2012. Now combine that certain debacle with a 3-way Prez race and late 2012 economic meltdown: Perfect Storm.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:14:03 +0000

I think that the gentleman on RT has some very good points. I do wish that they wouldn’t use terms like “Starship Troopers” I realize that you’re using it in the vein of the speaker’s comments. Who confused ST with Star Wars. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, a novel with less than half a chapter of an actual battle. The whole novel was based on the concept that you had to be a veteran before you could vote. Anyone could join, even a paraplegic, a job would be created. The idea was that if you served, you would pay the price of service and vote with maturity. Knowing some veterans today, I’m not going to say that he was right; Bob Heinlein showed common sense by stating that it would not in all cases improve the way a country managed itself. I think he knew some of the same vets I do. Star Wars was about the empire attacking nation states. Troopers, knowing the cost and expense of war, vs the profits of peace would be more obliged to work diplomatically. Our Star War generated citizen warriors don’t.

[I THOUGHT the guest referred to the above book. He confused me. Thanks for pointing this out.]

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:24:02 +0000

So, this makes him a mass murderer?

I thought so.

By: michel cloutier

michel cloutier — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:12:27 +0000

It is interesting to note how a government that celebrates diversity, equality and invites the world in when it comes to immigration will then go abroad and squash those same people as if they were ants on the ground.

Clearly it views them as less than human, tools, pawns, to be used and misused. Oh, the hypocrisy !