{"id":16540,"date":"2012-12-26T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2012-12-26T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:54:16","slug":"if-we-policed-the-u-s-the-way-we-do-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16540","title":{"rendered":"If we policed the U.S. the way we do Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/predatordrone.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Drone comic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/predatordrone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>A blessed rerun this week so that your humble hostess may recharge her batteries. Unfortunately, this one is just as relevant than ever.<\/p>\n<p>A couple commenters on Daily Kos have argued that I am comparing apples and oranges by placing military action in a police scenario. To which I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am aware that the rules of war are different from the rules of domestic policing. The point of this cartoon is to provide a thought exercise about how we might feel living under the constant existential threat of death from above.<\/p>\n<p>Employing drone strikes (or airstrikes of any kind) to take out a few suspected militants &#8212; especially in populated areas &#8212; is using excessive force. It&#8217;s both cruel and dehumanizing to the Afghan people, and counterproductive strategically.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blessed rerun this week so that your humble hostess may recharge her batteries. Unfortunately, this one is just as relevant than ever.<br \/>\nA couple commenters on Daily Kos have argued that I am comparing apples and oranges by placing military action in a police scenario. To which I replied:<br \/>\nI am aware that the rules of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}