Recently I have been reading a lot of posts about unauthorized drone attacks. By unauthorized I mean our USA drones killing suspected terrorists in Pakistan. Pakistan has requested that these unauthorized attacks stop. And you know what? I have to agree with them.
So lets flip the situation. Let's say their is a radical group of people who thought the guy in Norway who professed to murdering innocent youth was right. He was right to phobic to Islam and that violence was the only way. Let's they are targeting a building in Pakistan. Both sides know about the cell but thanks to USA laws the US wants to arrest these criminals and give them a fair trial. Pakistan decides to override the USA's laws and decides to drone attack their base in the Rockies. The USA would never let that go.
Now we are coming back from Bizarro, and in today's world. What gives the right to the USA, my country, to override some other country's laws? Is anyone else seeing the big picture? We are literally firing missiles into another country. That is nothing but a declaration of war. I see now why people see us as bullies. We go in and shoot the place up. We think we don't have to answer to another country. For it to be fair, than I think a country who suspects someone on our soil of being a terrorist toward their country, should also have the rights to "respond" to the threat. The law is a two way highway.
I know this is a gray area but mark my words, one day the USA will kill friendlies, probably a village. A formal apology won't fix that. A trial....a foreign trial demanding the drone pilot be held accountable. What will we do? Let the other country have their trial? Refuse that country? Openly defy and further organizations like Al Qaeda? I hope not. For our country's sake and the world.
