YES! Families of the innocent victims should be compensated.
67%
NO! We should just stop the drone program immediately.
33%
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No amount of money or whatever can replace the loss of a loved one, the loss of a life. No amount of money can give a child's father back, or mother, or give back a child lost. The argument that now we don't have to lose soldiers on the battlefield because of drones and robotics, etc. is a moot point when innocent people are getting killed, more innocent perhaps than the button pushers guiding the drones like some video game. There is little conscience in buttons and joystick wars. When we make war a neat button pushing affair there is something majorly wrong with that picture. War is supposed to be destructive, messy and ugly for all involved, keeping it a thing to avoid. If any kind of compensation is due, it might be to have the drone operators face up to their acts and bury the dead, that includes the inventors of war drones and war robotics, the CEO's of miltary industrial corporations, and the congress-persons, who approve of these attacks .
Obama Law:
when a Predator does it, it's legal
kill zone:
for a drone slinging POTUS, it's the entire world
drones:
how liberals wage war: their killing accomplished remotely, safely far away from any combat zone, so no blood spatters upon the chic clothing of the killers
testing program for corporatism's just-in-time scheduled solution for the climate crisis: mass manufacturing murderous machines to rapidly robotically reduce humanity's carbon footprint, by exterminating an exponentially growing list of terrorists
Zero Option (Afghanistan):
plan for removing all of America's unsuccessful combatants from the ground, before filling Afghan skies with the far more efficient killing machines: deadly lifeless drones
Obama preparing a free-fire zone for remote control robotic weaponry to kill anything that moves anywhere in Afghanistan — with no "non-friendly" identification required
how (D) voters desire their "good" and "necessary" wars waged: cleanly, casually, cold-bloodedly, with indiscriminate extermination of distant defenseless disposable others... and zero casualties
Assad:
another secular ruler of a Muslim people that liberals say "has to go"... to produce more terrorists for American drones to kill
heinous and cowardly:
what America's predator president considers those who personally hand deliver their bombing of civilians, instead of heroically and courageously impersonally launching robotic bombs like he does
Hillary 2016:
a horrific historic continuum continuing its color coded "progressive" progress, from 1st half-black Predator POTUS, to 1st pink Predator POTUS... Hillary for Predatoress
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The best thing that we as a species do before we self destruct is take the trillion dollars each year spent on weapons off offence and defence and use it for the benefit of humanity.
Provide education,basic health care, housing and food for all those living in horrible circumstances all around the world.
How can the so called most intelligent people design and build these weapons knowing full well the destruction to people's lives that they cause.
To continue down this road is insanity ,perhaps the people calling the shots are somewhat insane ,but the law of consequence will come home to roost one day soon .
It was hard choosing between the 2 options because I think we should do both.