Bill Greenwood
12-13-2013, 09:44 AM
A U.S. aircraft, a pilotless drone has attacked a wedding party in Yemen, killing 14 people.
This kind of thing has been going on for years and technology has now put distance between those in control and the final act of killing civilians so that I doubt if anyone will ever by held accountable, or that we will ever even know the name of the person who ordered the strike and certainly not the one flying the plane by computer, almost as if it was a video game not involving real people's lives.
These things can happen by mistake or even by some "trusted" source that is jealous of his neighbor who has a better poppy crop and so reports that person as Al Queda. Thus we make it easy for A Q to gain new recruits to avenge an act like this.
This kind of thing has been going on for years and technology has now put distance between those in control and the final act of killing civilians so that I doubt if anyone will ever by held accountable, or that we will ever even know the name of the person who ordered the strike and certainly not the one flying the plane by computer, almost as if it was a video game not involving real people's lives.
These things can happen by mistake or even by some "trusted" source that is jealous of his neighbor who has a better poppy crop and so reports that person as Al Queda. Thus we make it easy for A Q to gain new recruits to avenge an act like this.