tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post5274608863519540241..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Clean and LovelyPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-48698617411733191052010-04-02T18:26:18.417-07:002010-04-02T18:26:18.417-07:00And John Yoo is a lawyer, still.
Hehindeed.<i>And John Yoo is a lawyer, still.</i><br /><br />Hehindeed.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-70717135150860853902010-04-02T13:12:36.529-07:002010-04-02T13:12:36.529-07:00And let me just say, speaking as a lawyer:
The fu...And let me just say, speaking as a lawyer:<br /><br /><i>The funny thing about Etzioni's position is that drones appeal to him because "the drone can linger hours over the target making sure lawyers can look at it." </i><br /><br />Gawdelpus if that's the way we're conducting war, now. Maybe I should point out it was the lawyers, according to the Gospels, who figured out the "legal" way to condemn Jesus of Nazareth (not really, of course; it was Roman law condemned him, and Roman law was, by definition, civilized. Even if crucifixion is the cruellest form of execution ever devised by humanity (I use the term loosely).*<br /><br />And John Yoo is a lawyer, still. Though he doesn't deserve to be.<br /><br />(*Well, it <i>is</i> Good Friday, after all....)Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-59732477914924569822010-04-02T13:08:03.600-07:002010-04-02T13:08:03.600-07:00I'm going to bounce in and out of this one, su...I'm going to bounce in and out of this one, such is my outrage. To begin with, then:<br /><br /><i>CONAN: Well, nobody bombs like that. The United States doesn't bomb like that anymore. They are JDAMs that are dropped with geo-positioning satellites that are quite accurate.</i><br /><br />I'm only surprised he didn't say we were more "evolved" now, than then.<br /><br />Certainly our technology was much cruder, much less up to the task of precision slaughter, and we had to just accept the widespread destruction of lives and property, rather than the more precise destruction of, say, a "daisy cutter," which literally rips your lungs out.<br /><br />So much more precise, eh?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com