US Terrorist Policy: Just Shoot the Bastard!

It started under George III, but The Big O has continued the policy included in the title of this post.  Basically, if we spot a terrorist walking down a dusty road in Afghanistan, Somalia or Not-Pakistan, we shoot first and ask questions of... well, of scooped body fragments, but really of DNA.

Some sissies in the intelligence community insist that we are losing important opportunities to get some names, ranks and serial numbers.  All of which are either fake or nonexistent, but we do need them for our terrorist contact list.

Didn't we try the capture approach and fill up half of western Cuba with the results?  And now, we are stuck with trying the best of the captured some place Outside of New York.

Fortunately, we don't have any place to put the terrorists we would capture.  TBO is closing Guantanamo Bay's Terrorist Correctional Facility sometime soon.  Romania and Egypt have full slate to practice on and won't need any more for years.  Bring them to Outside of New York?  On US soil?  Can you find a nice spot where all the lawyers are at the bottom of a lake?  I didn't think so.

Haiti?  That is an excellent suggestion considering the Cirque tents on their way.  But those tents are to help Haiti's government get organized.  That means the Cirque tents will be tied up until Global Warming eliminates the need for a Haitian government all together.

Worse, after putting our CIA and Special forces guys and their helicopters at risk, all we get is "I don't have a present recollection" or "It depends on what 'is' is" before a panel of interrogators.  We have to simply write that response down (only once, followed by 238 ditto marks) and accept it all.  Under Congressional subcommittee precedent, we just have to take it and live with it.  Should a terrorist be held to a lower standard than that applied to a President, Cabinet member, tobacco executive or  Enron CEO?

Those neat Predator flying robots don't worry about capture and a chat.  They have Hellfire missiles with semi-precision laser aiming and Virginia-based triggers, for reasons not including an invite to gossip over low voltage electrodes. 

In Afghanistan itself, we have High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems that can whack a Talibaner from great distances without a harsh word or a single day of water-boarding.  And the accuracy is to within 1000 feet or 17 civilians, whichever is better.

To paraphrase, In war, the first of many victims is accuracy. 

Besides, those 17 civilians may not be all that civil and most of them probably grow a certain dangerous-to-Americans plant in their backyard garden or press said plant into Afghan Poppy Juice concentrate.  We'll ask their DNA later.

Surely, TBO may hate to admit it, even to Lady O, but George III was on target this one time.  No one loves this policy, really, but no one loves a terrorist, either.  For PR or blogging purposes, both President have, as I have, abbreviated the formal policy designation to punch it up for a better  executive order of blog post banner;  the real, classified title over the Presidential signature is too long and appropriately vague: 

Line 'Em Up, Pretty Well, and Just Shoot in the General Direction of the Bastards!