I posted in 2011 about my question to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a public forum and his response.
I was telling Bob Murphy, who interviewed me for his podcast, about it and found, with a few keystrokes, the audio/video. For my question and his response, go to 43:41.
Dec 12 2018
One often hears about the Trump administration's deregulation push. But how real is it? Is the number of regulations rising or falling? One Mercatus Center study found that growth in federal regulations slowed during 2017: As the saying goes, talk is cheap. What do the numbers—the numerous metrics of the stock and...
Dec 12 2018
At last, I'm starting my next major project: Poverty: Who To Blame. As usual, my first step is assembling and reading several tall stacks of research. One of these stacks is the "cultural of poverty" literature, and one of the classics of this literature is Hyman Rodman's Lower-Class Families: The Culture of Pove...
Dec 12 2018
I posted in 2011 about my question to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a public forum and his response. I was telling Bob Murphy, who interviewed me for his podcast, about it and found, with a few keystrokes, the audio/video. For my question and his response, go to 43:41.
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Mark Bahner
Dec 14 2018 at 12:43am
Leon Panetta (and virtually everyone in the world, I seem to be alone in this) doesn’t seem to see what to me is obvious…it is a huge mistake for a government to “go after” (attempt to kill) individuals in another country.
It’s not just illegal–extrajudicial executions are simply illegal–it’s also tremendously bad policy. Leon Panetta mentioned Yemen and Somalia…and “other places”. The implication was that we should just kill people in those countries without any attempt to work with the governments of those countries. When we kill civilians in other countries, it gives the governments of those countries absolutely zero reason to work with us. In fact, it gives them every reason *not* to work with us.
His final statements about eliminating everyone with “intent” to harm the U.S. bordered on insanity. (To me. But maybe I’m the insane one, because no one else seems to think this way.) So some 10-year-old in the tribal area of Pakistan who hates the U.S. because his family was killed as collateral damage in one of our drone attacks, needs to have his “intent” stopped? How would that even work?
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