The New Party of Drones?

[muttly]

Interesting article about a Pew research poll's finding regarding our Drone program. Looks like the Dem's are also embracing Dick Cheney's position more and more every day. Are they becoming The Party of Drones?

From article:
I’m trying to be charitable and assume that a lot of this is explainable on the merits, that Democrats have looked at O’s admittedly stellar record of taking out AQ operatives with drones and concluded that it’s the least bad option available in eliminating terrorists before they eliminate towers full of American office workers. But note: Democrats now support drone strikes (58 percent) more than independents do (50 percent), which is not a result you’d expect if you looked at any polls on the war on terror taken from, say, 2005 through 2008. Back then it was Republicans who were reliably the most hawkish group (and still are, with 68 percent support for drones today), then indies, and then of course the vehemently anti-war left. Somehow, despite O having famously liquidated an American citizen turned AQ capo in Anwar al-Awlaki and then inadvertently liquidated Awlaki’s teenaged American-citizen son in a strike aimed at a different jihadi, that same anti-war left is now less anti-war than unaffiliateds are. What do you suppose accounts for their awakening? It couldn’t be that Glenn Greenwald’s right that a significant swath of them are overtly unprincipled hacks who were never vehemently anti-war so much as vehemently anti-Bush, could it?
Pew poll: 58% of Democrats agree with Dick Cheney on Obama?s drone strikes « Hot Air

DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

[Turtle]

So, the Democrats are now out the closet, right along side of the Republicans, as overly unprincipled hacks? Democrats and Republicans agree on something, and he has a problem with that. Sounds like the author is more concerned with the "us versus them" anti-Democrat in the same manner he's accusing Democrats of being anti-Bush than he is about the issue of out-of-control drone attacks with so little oversight. Wow.

 

[RLENT]

Interesting article about a Pew research poll's finding regarding our Drone program. Looks like the Dem's are also embracing Dick Cheney's position more and more every day.

Dream on AllahPutz, dream on ... but be sure to clean up afterwards ...

Are they becoming The Party of Drones?

Well, of course they are ...

Only someone that is utterly delusional would believe that the membership of the "War Party" doesn't cross partisan political lines ...

In fact, if anyone wants to show how much of a dunce they really are, then they should just go ahead and make the claim that "the Left" is "anti-war" ...

That's not the case at all (depending on what your definition is of what constitutes "the Left") ... although it is true that there are some on the Left that are very much solidly anti-war ... just as there on the Right ...

Out of the two, those on the Left are more inclined to in-your-face direct action and protest (which garners the headlines), whereas those on the Right tend argue it from whatever pulpit they speak from ...

I’m trying to be charitable and assume that a lot of this is explainable on the merits, that Democrats have looked at O’s admittedly stellar record of taking out AQ operatives with drones and concluded that it’s the least bad option available in eliminating terrorists before they eliminate towers full of American office workers.

It's unwarranted charity on the part of AllahClown ...

They agree with it because it's Obama doing it ("they" being many Democrats) ... too much invested in "The One" for it to be anything other than "correct" ...

... that same anti-war left is now less anti-war than unaffiliateds are. What do you suppose accounts for their awakening? It couldn’t be that Glenn Greenwald’s right that a significant swath of them are overtly unprincipled hacks who were never vehemently anti-war so much as vehemently anti-Bush, could it?

Absolutely it could ... in much the same vein as the vehemently anti-Obama crowd ...

So if I were you I wouldn't be taking very much solace in that ... since the Right certainly has it's own functional equivalent of the same sort of unprincipled hacks ...