I went through an anti-war phase after 9/11, and it lasted a long time. It would shock a lot of people who posted here regularly in the latter part of last decade to learn that I ended up joining the anti-war movement. I started drifting that way some in 2009. I started to lose hope in the idea that the masses in Iraq and Afghanistan have enough passion for freedom to maintain their democracies on their own, and the drone program made it where I could no longer say that Americans are not targeting innocents. Innocents are being targeted when they are with suspected terrorists. It is not necessarily specific targeting of innocents, but it is reckless targeting at best. That does make it where we are infuriating large numbers of people and inspiring terrorist movements. I no longer think that our involvement in the Greater Middle East is justifiable. It is tragically unethical, it is counterproductive, it is outrageously expensive and therefore dangerous to our falling economy, and it is giving the U.S. government excuses to turn the country into a police state. We need to get out of the Greater Middle East and not give Israel another dime. If Israel wants to have an ethnocentrically based country in a holy land hornets' nest, they need to do it on their own. They can't expect the West to keep turning itself inside out over their selfish religious fantasies.

Now that I am part of the anti-war movement, I see that the movement has very little support these days. Republicans are gung-ho war, and Democrats are gung-ho Obama, so that leaves very few people saying that our dealings in the Greater Middle East need to end. They need to end.

There is debate and lack of certainty regarding how many innocents are being killed in drone attacks, so I posted multiple sources. I encourage doing your own research to get an idea of how far between the extremes the truth may lie.

Drone attacks in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://sjir.stanford.edu/13-1/drone%20strikes.pdf

Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes - ProPublica

http://www.livingunderdrones.org/numbers/

Drone 'Signature Strike' Witness Responds To Obama Speech: 'I Don't Trust A Single Word'

PressTV - US terror drones kill more civilians than terrorists: ICG report



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8fEktsPnaY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CV0c-9QPgM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgr26CiTiCk


If you see the drone program and our other activities in the Greater Middle East as a problem, the anti-war movement would like for you to join us.