Left: after a visit by a US Drone.A "Drone" is a pilotless US plane that is being used to fire missiles at communities without risking US lives. This is very important to the US orchestrators of these interventions around the world as too many US deaths would not be tolerated for long. People don't like their kids dying when the threat isn't real imminent and public support, or at least acquiescence would diminish rapidly.
Today, the papers report a Drone killed sixty people at a funeral; a week or so ago a US missile missed its intended target and killed 22 others. They were all "militants" we are told. Militants is a word they frequently use for anyone who opposes being invaded. It is beginning to replace terrorist. This has been going on a while and is one of the reasons the Taliban are gaining in popularity and is also destabilizing Pakistan. It's hard to hit the nail on the head when you're guiding the aircraft from some center in Iowa perhaps. The other thing is that workers around the world see it as evidence of great cowardice and disrespect for human life.
This policy of pilotless carnage, started by Bush, has been intensified by Obama. Let's step in to the minds of workers in the former colonial world, or just plain people from other countries in general. The US cries such indignation at the horror of losing 3000 people in the 911 attacks. This is tragic of course, but the loss of life around the world, much of it completely innocent life, through the actions of US imperialism is massive and is the single most contributing factor to the rise of terrorist groups. How else, some might ask, do you fight back against and enemy that drops bombs on you from thousands of miles away? How would you react if your entire family was wiped out "by accident", and the perpetrator gave you a hundred dollars and sent you on your way.
I think you'd have some hatred for these people and everything they stand for.
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