{"id":30372,"date":"2012-06-13T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30372"},"modified":"2012-06-13T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:29:04","slug":"the-world-disapproves-of-drone-strikes-so-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30372","title":{"rendered":"The world disapproves of drone strikes. So? Who cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that a Pew poll of twenty nations reveals that 17 of those nations disapprove of US drone strikes in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

Even long-time American allies like Britain, Germany and Japan have majorities that disapprove of the drone strikes, at 47, 59 and 75 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

The strike tactic is extremely unpopular in Muslim countries, where most of the bombings take place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is important how? The targets of drone strikes (the Muslim countries) unsurprisingly don’t like having missiles fired at their goat-roping asses and the folks who don’t have much skin in the game don’t approve. Who even thought this poll was important enough to waste time on? I could have told them what the results would be before they made the first phone call, or smoke signal or whatever they used to get the opinions of these morons.<\/p>\n

The U.S. was the only country with a positive percentage, at 62. More specifically, 74 percent of Republicans approve of the strikes, compared to 60 percent of independents and 58 percent of Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since it’s our troops whose lives are being protected by this particular strategy, that’s the only part of the poll that matters. Who gives a tiny rat’s ass what Turkey or Egypt says?<\/p>\n

And, oh, not that it matters much to me, but in the last election, we were told that if Obama were our president, the rest of the world would love him and respect us more as a result. Well, four years later, it seems that those same countries who want to see more American casualties don’t seem to like Obama as much as we were led to believe, according to that poll<\/a>.
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\nLike I said, I don’t particularly care how the rest of the world perceives us or our policies (we’re Americans and we’re supposed to have policies that benefit us and piss off the rest of the world – that’s kind of the purpose of a federalist government), but to those of you who are more enlightened than me, what with me not being a world citizen and all, it might be important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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