Image via WikipediaDrone Wars: Are drones making war too easy?
very few drone strikes successfully take out high value targets
Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, a former aide to Gen. David Petreaus and the world’s most respected counterterrorism strategist, believes they’re also counterproductive in that they stoke anti-American feelings in Pakistan and feed recruits to militant groups.
Sex and the single drone
In hundreds of attacks over the past few years in the Pakistani tribal borderlands, they have killed thousands
As long as global war remains the essence of "foreign policy," the drones - and the military-industrial companies and lobbying groups behind them, as well as the military and CIA careers being built on them - will prove expansive. They will go where, and as far as, the technology takes them.
Execution by secret WH committee a panel operating out of the White House — that meets in total secrecy, with no known law or rules governing what it can do or how it operates — is empowered to place American citizens on a list to be killed by the CIA, which (by some process nobody knows) eventually makes its way to the President, who is the final Decider. It is difficult to describe the level of warped authoritarianism necessary to cause someone to lend their support to a twisted Star Chamber like that; I genuinely wonder whether the Good Democrats doing so actually first convince themselves that if this were the Bush White House’s hit list, or if it becomes Rick Perry’s, they would be supportive just the same. Seriously: if you’re willing to endorse having White House functionaries meet in secret — with no known guidelines, no oversight, no transparency — and compile lists of American citizens to be killed by the CIA without due process, what aren’t you willing to support?
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In a recent article in Truthout, Gareth Porter demolishes the claim that US "night raids" in Afghanistan - that's when US forces smash into people's homes in the middle of the night, shooting anyone who might appear to resist - are "precisely targeted", noting that a key target of the night raids is not insurgents, but civilians who might know insurgents - a blatant violation of the laws of war; and that moreover, people are targeted based not on their identity, but based on their phone records. So if somebody calls someone linked by the US to the insurgency from your phone, US forces can smash into your house, kill you and your relatives, and claim success: "Taliban killed."
How the US taxpayer got plucked in Iraq
We measured the impact of our projects by their effect on us, not by their effect on the Iraqis. Output was the word missing from the vocabulary of developing Iraq. Everything was measured only by what we put in -- dollars spent, hours committed, people engaged, press releases written.
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The traditional media is your enemy.
The movement will be infiltrated.
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( Heh. the 'girl's a red-headed granny with smarts and 'tude. )
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