Where's the Outrage?

[TheKentuckian]

75. Okay, for purposes of the debate let us let that assesment stand.

Will you oppose this targeting for those who there is no such public record? Will you at least make in accomodation in your thought process for a few important things like we are not only talking about this one target but a much broader program where it would be fair to say are far less famous with little trail, that the "battlefield" is global and that in probably the super majority or greater cases the "battlefield" is no such thing in anything remotely similar to how it tends to immediatly come to mind with little in the way of shooting back and forth on any level, that there is no state, little if any objectives that can be taken, the enemy has no uniform or flag, has no government to swear alligence to or that can be broken, and in general and logically that the certainty of who is the enemy is or why you have been attacked because the background noise is so intense once you are at war with ideologies and worse tactics.

I'd also add that the enemy is not an existential threat. Some argue otherwise but the arguments lean heavily toward delusional and certainly to the highly speculative.

They have no satellites, no navy, no airforce, no credible military, nary a tank, and by even the most generous assessments no numbers to have the scale to be more than a contextual annoyance with their greatest success and typically pissing into the wind.
I think too many watched a few episodes of 24 after living in some trance that built the illusion of being magically untouchable by activity that happens around the world, even in Europe enough that folks don't start believing in magic protection fields powered by exceptionalisim.

Terrorisim is a tactic and a generally applied one (please don't dare pretend we don't utilize it, what the hell would "Shock and Awe" be, especially when we are the aggressor?). The scale being small enough, participated in by those without state or title doesn't make it some unfathonable and ultimate threat.

This entire notion is no less absurd with a cool as a cucumber professor mouthing the nonsense than it was with the dry drunk cowboy from the northeast via Texas. The margin of error is high and the potential for abuse extreme and unchecked by design.
The "damn the torpedos", "let God sort em out", and by all means the insane level of self justifying "if we are shooting at them"/"if they got arrested for ____" they must be guilty" logic is orders of magnitude a greater threat due to rot from within and at the root of our society than a handful of extremist hiding in holes spread around the globe.