04-07-2009, 08:02 AM
Here's my favorite drone story, although there's plenty of them around these days.
Tuesday June 23, 2009. South Waziristan region of Pakistan:
A drone attack targeting a couple of Taliban leaders in the morning kills around 8 people. It appears the targets got away but it's hard to get a proper reading of the situation because journalists and other media types are barred from the conflict zones. In the afternoon a funeral gathering for those killed earlier is again attacked by drones, killing many more civilians. Numbers vary but the Tehran Times claims it is up to 80.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=197680
So who are the terrorists? If the definition of terrorism is indiscriminate murder of innocents, then America's terrorism is one level beneath suicide bombers on the scale of morality because a suicide bomber sacrifices his/her life, whereas the drone terrorists sit in front of a computer screen a thousand miles away.
Tuesday June 23, 2009. South Waziristan region of Pakistan:
A drone attack targeting a couple of Taliban leaders in the morning kills around 8 people. It appears the targets got away but it's hard to get a proper reading of the situation because journalists and other media types are barred from the conflict zones. In the afternoon a funeral gathering for those killed earlier is again attacked by drones, killing many more civilians. Numbers vary but the Tehran Times claims it is up to 80.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=197680
So who are the terrorists? If the definition of terrorism is indiscriminate murder of innocents, then America's terrorism is one level beneath suicide bombers on the scale of morality because a suicide bomber sacrifices his/her life, whereas the drone terrorists sit in front of a computer screen a thousand miles away.