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When a person attacks their own government, they may have been influenced by a variety of sources, but they were most likely "radicalized" by their government. Step one is admitting responsibilities...

More to the point of the thread, I think it is important that we see drones as a tool rather than as a strategy that can be applied to some problem.

In a future where we are not attempting to fix...

First, as those who follow anything I have posted know, I am not a big fan of waging war against one's own populace and believe that insurgency is best treated as a civil emergency rather than as...

Where all combatants are civilians, when is a casualty not a "civcas"?

Far more accurate distinction is that of "combatant" vs "non-combatant"

The next sticky issue to work through is that is...

"good" and "bad" are assessments that are not particularly helpful; unless by "good" one means willing to work with us toward mutually beneficial ends.

When we decide some guy or his organization...

The Taliban are not, and have never been the enemy of the United States. IAW principles of Pashtunwali they refused to give up AQ to the US when we asked them to, so we put our weight behind their...

Mike, perhaps you can agree with me. I have no problem with declaring an open season on AQ, so long as we have the wisdom to not allow the intel guys to slap that label on every nationalist...

Damn the lawyers anyway! :D

We say we are "at war" so that we can invoke wartime authorities to do things that would not be allowed if we were "at peace" and operating under law enforcement...

To me, the greatest insights into the minds of those who live in the FATA were the words of a village elder there to one of our guys during the first operation of the Pakistani military up into that...

And I agree that over the past span of recorded history such temporal success have been sufficient to allow the National interests to be serviced with little threat of popular blowback on the folks...

Killing leaders will indeed suppress current capabilities. It will at the same time largely add fuel to the larger causal issues of the insurgency, so that when it brews back up with new leaders it...