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I find drone strikes emotionally unsatisfying.

Dayton3

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While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
 
War doesn't need to be emotionally satisfying, in fact killing should always be emotionally unsatisfying. What matters is the mission.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
Think of it as a sniper many miles away pulling a trigger. There is a video being watched many times and I am sure much congratulations and high fives.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
Tough
 
Good that the US got the planner. I don't think that the far right is satisfied.
 
we could do a Quigley Down Under.
 
Good that the US got the planner. I don't think that the far right is satisfied.
I'd say they've got a few more to go. Another warning at the airport for people to leave the gates immediately.
 
War doesn't need to be emotionally satisfying, in fact killing should always be emotionally unsatisfying. What matters is the mission.
But the bungling of the "mission" from the beginning has created all this avoidable aftermath that will have consequences for decades to come. When something is bungled so badly, the emotions rightfully so are going to be heightened and rightfully so.
 
Good that the US got the planner. I don't think that the far right is satisfied.
They seem to only respect that fat golfing **** who didn't care about anyone but his dawdur, if he even gave a shit about her.
 
But the bungling of the "mission" from the beginning has created all this avoidable aftermath that will have consequences for decades to come. When something is bungled so badly, the emotions rightfully so are going to be heightened and rightfully so.
The tactical mission, not the strategic one. We had no strategy.
 
But the bungling of the "mission" from the beginning has created all this avoidable aftermath that will have consequences for decades to come. When something is bungled so badly, the emotions rightfully so are going to be heightened and rightfully so.
Sorry to inform you, but the adults are in charge now. You had your fool running the sandbox for four years. We saw how that turned out.
 
The tactical mission, not the strategic one. We had no strategy.
The strategic aspect requires a president to intently listen to our intel, our military etc. Biden did not and there are plenty of documents to prove Biden blew off the warnings. You can not have a tactical success without first having a solid strategic one.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
Dead Service Members isn't a price worth paying to buy your entertainment.
 
The strategic aspect requires a president to intently listen to our intel, our military etc. Biden did not and there are plenty of documents to prove Biden blew off the warnings. You can not have a tactical success without first having a solid strategic one.
Good grief. Were you paying any attention at all during the past four years?
 
But the bungling of the "mission" from the beginning has created all this avoidable aftermath that will have consequences for decades to come. When something is bungled so badly, the emotions rightfully so are going to be heightened and rightfully so.
Ummm...this was nearly unavoidable, at least in regards to the collapse of the Afghani government.
 
The tactical mission, not the strategic one. We had no strategy.
There was no strategy, except perhaps going Genghis Khan, that would've worked.
 
4 years? More like nearly all 20.
Bush should have been impeached for starting a second war before ending the first one.

Obama should have ended both on day 1. He had the capital.

Trump should not have left Biden a ticking bomb.

Biden is actually doing fairly well here, given the mess he inherited.
 
Ummm...this was nearly unavoidable, at least in regards to the collapse of the Afghani government.
Ummmmm the vice president of Afghanistan did not cut and run yet he was never recognized as the rightful person in power. He is currently fighting in northern Afghanistan along with Afghani soldiers against the Taliban.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.

At my current duty station we have a terminal set up that we want to keep on at all times, but the administrative restrictions don't let us change it so the computer just stays on, so we have to play a video in the background to make sure it stays on.

We usually pull a video from the SIPR net, usually drone footage, and just put the video of someone getting a hellfire on them for hours upon hours upon hours...
 
We usually pull a video from the SIPR net

To most in here, SIPR and NIPR mean about as much as unicorn farts. They could not give a frack about the military itself. They only see us as pawns in their political bullshit games.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
Dayton3:

Should military operations be tailored to sating your insatiable hunger for death and violence? Who, aside from you, cares if drone strikes leave you unsatisfied? War is not entertainment, it is organised bloody murder and needless ruination in the preponderance of cases. How utterly egocentric and self-absorbed your comment is.

Be well.
Evilroddy.
 
While I support the drone strike today that killed the ISIS-k "planner" and I really don't like endangering our military people, I find killing our enemies with a drone strike emotionally unsatisfying.
This is not about your emotions.
 
Dayton3:

Should military operations be tailored to sating your insatiable hunger for death and violence?

I have no desire for death and violence. My interest in war is almost entirely academic.
 
I have no desire for death and violence. My interest in war is almost entirely academic.
your thread title is not consistent with this post.
 
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