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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould Martin Luther King have thought a "surgical strike" on Syria would lessen war crimes?
(just wondering)
On Edit: . . . or might he have felt delivering Cheney to the Hague might be more to the point?
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Would Martin Luther King have thought a "surgical strike" on Syria would lessen war crimes? (Original Post)
Faryn Balyncd
Aug 2013
OP
Amazing: All the billions spent developing drones and cruise-missiles and GPS-guided bombs & so on..
backscatter712
Aug 2013
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JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)1. did the concept
Of a surgical strike exist at his time? I don't believe so. . . I don't think this would have come up. But I wonder what say - Frederick Douglas would have thought of this . . .
G_j
(40,366 posts)2. "surgical strikes" still don't exist
It's just a manipulation of words, sort of like "enhanced interrogation".
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)4. Amazing: All the billions spent developing drones and cruise-missiles and GPS-guided bombs & so on..
specifically because generals were getting sick of being called to the carpet every time a military strike took out some toddlers as "collateral damage."
But we're still blowing up weddings and funerals and toddlers and paramedics...
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)3. We have no idea what MLK would have done as president