so cures tim powers was on bill o'reilly show on fox news and uh... they got into
a very interesting discussion
recording drones and fighting the war on terror
and i wanna play it's a
not too long closed up two minutes long but let's listen to it and there's a lot
to talk about afterwards let's go
evidence web where they come out and said that that's the just
constantly traveling
middle eastern countries in this case uh... the fat
thanks to all attacks had not that we can measure intimidating to sit here and
say that precedent that might have missed an states action to be put in a
positions midtown killed an attack on the calendar number one person is
another one percentage of the appalachian attrition children
eliminating regardless creating works harassment is what i mean you know have
evolved intervened on him watching their families being blown up bells that still
it creates more terrorist cases on negative straight sort of war on terror
yes was which
the enemy because they can't make it back but not just attacking animal
overkill in terms of civilians wouldn't budge alzheimer's that they have no an
email that i think that this is an independent cases though is that ok
comes up
objectives with backup are you serious this incident and i think services
saying that they do want to truman's
unless there is a likelihood that civilians will dot that's what happens
if possible i guess it was a policy does not present patrimony texas and find out
why is that something has happened out there
i see you gave him the benefit of truck accident identification you don't have
anything to say
eighty there's no price and that's not what's going on in the middle east the
expected innocent civilians are not being told by the time so i mean
but it's not policy and other hypoxia according to our history where he
listens without having to happens and you know
rounds coming in for a house and knowing that they're innocent people in there on
the option certain feedback addictive behavior or the terrace and where he's
going to kill them
an essay in has yet been delivered peasants press secretary general where
he was asked about descending kills
inexact and situations happen and he says my decision at that product that is
not
seriously tried accepted by the recipient of history you have to look at
warren what worries helps intel's protecting yourself number one as we go
to war destroying any and when you destroy the enemy
history civilians around the enemy and that happens in every way we decided we
wanted to do the same actually tetanus shot had one more question
that and was sold
telling
all riley quo when you destroy the enemy
you destroy civilians around the enemy
and that happens in every war
that's
uh... hair follicles linked the way
from saying
i don't care about suing casualties
i'd just flat out don't care
and i don't know if you hear i heard a accusing powers
response but it was spot on
she said quote
i'm sure you'd feel the same way if it was your family or your neighbor
and therein lies
the ridiculousness
of bill riley's position
are you kidding you think you would be that kind
if we aren't too old war with china
and their targeting our soldiers but in the killing
thousands of civilians would you say why don't congress in here's what i don't
buy that happens in every war it it's not that big a deal
no reno you would respond like that
there's a lot to add to that debate that they were having
not only is kirsten powers variety
and o'reilly wrong kirsten powers is more right than she knows and in fact
shisha went even further
uh... for example we do know how many civilians are being killed and in fact i
wish
powers knew the numbers supply guy do i wish you the markets operate as you can
shuttle riley down
uh... and we do know that uh... drum tracks are counterproductive
that's not simply a matter of opinion like i well i think they work although i
think they'll work
we know what they don't work
uh... and it's our own c_i_a_ telling us that
on top of
but also a bunch of independent studies as well
for example the c_i_a_ refers to a that as blow back the unintended consequences
of or interventionist foreign policy there's also a benchmark study that was
done in two thousand seven where they can came up with the phrase a rack of
fact
it whatever for still
it refers to the next increased in terrorists
and uh... terrorist attacks
since by the invasion of iraq
because we've killed so many civilians we've made it so that
otherwise moderate people in iraq and afghanistan across uh... the muslim
world
have decided you know i was pro-american until they killed my and my brother
and now i wanna fight
it's amazing to me that the these days
genuinely don't cross or i was wondering today in the princeton and
when you look at the specifics
two percent of the drone strikes are actually killing members of al qaeda
only two percent that's a ninety percent failure rate and there was a study from
n_y_u_ in stamford they came out
thousands of civilians have been killed over two thousand
including
a lot of
women and children as well
and then nevermind the fact that uh... one only documents
that i'd leave it was wiki weeks that uncovered one of the reasons why
the establishment of government so mad at them
but sure our policy where we do personality strikes where we say okay of
we know this is a warning to kill them with the drone and then we also do
signature strikes signature strikes is when we say uh... we don't know if
they're guilty but i look i don't think l
i'm not kidding
there was video of of people in the media
uh... holding cameras in the soldier on as that
is that i've done it on t_v_ camera a white dome anyway
and wilson and donald tax where u
you strike you circle background and the good samaritan toward helping people out
of the the rock the rubble and
uh... the scene they get killed as well
you can't
defend that
and
look if we
new we were killing all the right people and it was a fact that we were killing
the right people
or even if the civilian casualties existed
it was very very minimal
that's a completely different conversation to have
and that's one in which or riley would be correct
but those aren't the facts but what's really going on that's not even close to
the facts of was really going on