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How do you regard Ron Paul's economic ideas?
He is my hero 10%  10%  [ 5 ]
I adore his ideas 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
I agree with him more than I disagree 27%  27%  [ 13 ]
Meh, I can take his ideas or leave them. 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
He has some good points, but is mostly wrong 17%  17%  [ 8 ]
He is a complete and utter quack, when it comes to economics 25%  25%  [ 12 ]
He is a threat to the nation 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
He is a threat to the world 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Ron who? 10%  10%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 48

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04 Nov 2012, 7:45 am

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And what would a realistic alternative to drone strikes be?


Not attacking people we don't need to?

Now if we insist that there are certain people that just need to go, I'd say improve the technology, improve the transparency (currently, the program is too classified for accountability but not so classified Obama can't brag about it when it suits him), and tighten up the criteria for launching a strike. Currently we're using so called "signature strikes", where we don't even know who we're shooting at, just that a pattern of information that the CIA has deemed to be a "terrorist signature" has been detected at a particular site and so we blow it up.

I'll give you an example of what I mean by improving the technology too. Currently, the drones are armed with Hellfire missiles, a remotely guided high explosive weapon of no great precision. I would change that out to a heavy caliber, say the 30mm we use in the A-10s, semi automatic cannon equipped with the newly developed laser guided bullet technology. I've seen that tech demoed on a .50 caliber round, so I know it would fit on a much larger 30mm shell, and the round certainly has the power to deliver lethal energy to a person at the range the drones operate at. The round tracks a laser that is painted onto the target, while the Hellfire is TV guided with a joystick, so no great change in training would be needed for the operators. Most importantly, a system like I'm describing would require targeting an individual rather than an area, minimizing the collateral damage. Note that I would still have myriad objections to the drone program without the transparency issues being addressed, but I think the technical ones are well within our grasp.


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04 Nov 2012, 6:42 pm

Dox47 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
:shrug:

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Kinda says a lot, doesn't it?


Actually, I was meaning to be flippant with the :shrug: . Perhaps I should have added: I'm still gonna.

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04 Nov 2012, 8:26 pm

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Actually, I was meaning to be flippant with the :shrug: . Perhaps I should have added: I'm still gonna.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


...still gonna vote for the lying, hypocritical, child killing demagogue?


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04 Nov 2012, 11:21 pm

Dox47 wrote:
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Actually, I was meaning to be flippant with the :shrug: . Perhaps I should have added: I'm still gonna.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


...still gonna vote for the lying, hypocritical, child killing demagogue?


You make it sound like there's something wrong with being those things.
(Yes, I'm still being flippant.)

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