วันจันทร์ที่ 10 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

The civilian victims of the CIA's drone war | Clive Stafford Smith

A new study gives us the true picture, but - contrary to the specific history of the CIA - a "sad statistic damage" drones "collateral

I will not deny that the pilotless plane, flying bomb, or whatever the proper name, is an extremely unpleasant, because, unlike most of the projectiles, which give the time to think. What is your initial reaction when you hear the zoom zoom? Inevitably, there is hope that the noise does not stop. Want to hear the bomb pass safely air and fade into the distance ...

George Orwell, "what I like," Tribune, June 30, 1944

George Orwell wrote about

the London bombings in 1944 V2. However, there are many more in Britain who identify with this voice, speaking 67 years ago, that events are a common reality in Pakistan today.


main issue of the CIA to answer is how we come to realize an undeclared war, illegal in Pakistan, which is nominally an ally of the United States. But beyond that, whenever we read the news of the strike drones in Pakistan last, we need an honest assessment of civilian casualties - and if we feel comfortable with an intelligence agency to commit reckless killings in a large-scale military (attack of the CIA now outnumber the firepower used in the first round of the Kosovo war).

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