Pejman Yousefzadeh

upwithchris:

Chris Hayes on the government’s “targeted killing” program:

What, people ask, is the alternative to small war, if not big war? And the answer no one ever seems to even consider is: no war. If the existence of people out in the world who are actively working to kill Americans means we are still at war, then it seems to me we will be at war forever, and will surrender control over whether that is the state we do in fact want to be in. There’s another alternative: we can be a nation that declares its war over, that declares itself at peace and goes about rigorously and energetically using intelligence and diplomacy and well-resourced police work to protect us from future attacks.

Chris Hayes believes that when it comes to national security/defense/foreign policy, wishing a thing makes it so. How cute.