at is the situation in baltimore, maryland whichscended into chaos after the funeral of freddie gray, an emotional powerful funeral where we heard people pleaing for peace and understanding. but there was a lot of anger, as well, a lot desperation. you could feel the years of struggle that baltimore has endured in the words of many who spoke at the funeral and of course the city descending in to chaos, there is a curfew in effect, national guard has been put into place, police from surrounding areas have come in. and even this morning, there isn t confirmation that the city is under control as of last night they did not have it under control and there were places burning, the community center which they don t know is linked to the rioting, kind of obvious that it might be, i won t make that leap but massive fires police cars on fire police officers injured, some seriously. and again, this is a city 40
that s where these two things don t match up. it s very vivid because you have the footage of these attacks. honestly n terms of the distance involved, if it s a strike from sea, would that make it any different? we were launching cruise missile strikes in the 90s on targets in afghanistan. morally, i don t know there s a lot of different. the intelligence question is very real, and we need to look at that. when we talk about the foundational use of drones and if there isn t confirmation, as you re saying the distance is too great and the specifics are unknown, doesn t that in and of itself mean that the program is being overused? it means that the intelligence that underlies it is it needs to be under much greater scrutiny. the problem is this backlash. you re killing civilians. you re radicalizing local populations that you need on your side. so this is where the policy is really falling if apart. if the intelligence isn t any good, the system, the policy backfires. so and