re: #296 Lidane

Shorter Greenwald thought process: DRONEZ!

Although there IS a point there by Gates. The warmongers in DC think the answer to everything is boots on the ground. They never stop to consider the costs of that because for them, war isn’t real. They don’t have to fight it.

That’s not the whole of it. War not being ‘real’ can work the other way, too, as with the missile strikes Bill Clinton ordered to “send a message” after the 1998 embassy bombing. The missiles fired at Sudan mostly succeeded in destroying what was later found to be a pharmaceutical plant that produced aspirin among other things.

George W. Bush memorably skewered the missile strikes on Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, saying “If I go to war, I’m not gonna use a $3 million dollar missile to blow up an empty $10 tent and hit a camel in the butt.”