Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

Unreal.

 

Is this bumbling sonuvabitch REALLY running for president? Carson is a joke

 

When pollsters call me, I just tell them that I have a dog that I'm looking to sell for $1,400.

 

Just so we're clear after this last debate. Trump, Cruz and Carson are all in favor of killing innocent civilians in the fight against ISIS. It's fucking unbelievable.

 

Is it possible to fight a war and not kill innocent civilians?

Also, this week, it was made clear that we are all in agreement that interning Japanese-Americans was an abhorrent Democratic policy.

Was it also wrong for us to drop the bomb(s) on Japan, knowingly killing civilians? Do we regret that now?

 

oop laughs at the level of delusion it takes to assume a war can be waged without any collateral damage.

 

No. And no.

 

So, killing innocent civilians is sometimes acceptable in war, just not in this war?

Explain the policy to me. How do we decide when killing innocent civilians is ok?

 

No on eliminating civilian deaths. With 70 years of hindsight, Americans regret dropping the bomb and the civilian deaths they caused. However, I don't think Americans still would have the stomach for what an invasion of the Home Islands would have entailed. You'd have to be a sociopath to not have any regrets.

 

It's a given in ALL war. Killing terrorist suspects' families or carpet bombing? No. But if we have a valid target you can't hold back to avoid civilian casualties.

 

And Christie did VERY well tonight. Right in his wheelhouse

 

It is a moral calculus.

If we do this one thing, it will kill 100,000 of their people but none of ours. But if we do this land invasion, it will kill at least that many civilians, maybe 10 times that but it will also kill many of our people.

It was an awful choice but the first bomb drop was the correct choice.

The second bomb drop is more debated in nerdy historian circles but my War in the Pacific class was a couple of decades ago and I don't remember the ins and outs of the arguments. Also of note, the fire bombings of German cities are also quite highly debated.

I think the greater concern is that the ISIL people, per my readings, have a very sophisticated social media operation. Doesn't saying things like let's kill all the civilians something that would be something they could use? Is that not the classic bulletin board material coaches hate so much?