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The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Dronning Terrorism
Update: My late colleague Nobel Laureate Ed Purcell, resigned from all government advisory positions when the Vietnam catastrophe came up.
He supported strongly my views and defined a terrorist as
"A person who has a bomb and no airplane to drop it from".
Killing another human being is, fortunately hard for another human being to do. Soldiers often get mental problems for having to kill another face to face. Pilots find it far easier:because they do not know who they are killing. Those who control the drones do so much too easily. The law in many states and countries follows this. We have the death penalty for a person to person killing. Soldiers get treated for post traumatic stress disorder, pilots get decorated.
I am not even sure what happens to those who control the drones!
(YOU MAY QUOTE ME)
Dick Wilson
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University ( by email 21, April 2012)
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"This headline and first paragraph from today’s Washington Post scoop by Greg Miller speaks volumes about so many things:
There are many evils in the world, but extinguishing people’s lives with targeted, extra-judicial killings, when you don’t even know their names, based on “patterns” of behavior judged from thousands of miles away, definitely ranks high on the list. Although the Obama White House has not approved of this request from CIA Director David Petraeus, these so-called “signature strikes” that “allow the agency to hit targets based solely on intelligence indicating patterns of suspicious behavior” are already robustly used in Pakistan — having been started by George Bush in 2008 and aggressively escalated by Barack Obama. There is much to say on this new report, but in order for me to focus on three discrete points, permit me to highly recommend two superb articles that highlight other vital aspects of this policy:
(1) this article from my Salon colleague Jefferson Morley this morning on why this form of drone-targeting is pure American Terrorism, and
(2) this essay from Chris Floyd about a recently published Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings on Obama’s love of drones and secret wars and how the military’s slang for drone victims — “bug splat” — reflects the sociopathic mindset that drive them".
America’s drone sickness, April 19, 2012
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: April 24, 2012 5:55 PM : April 24, 2012 11:42 PMRobert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story : For little Sayef, there will be no Arab Spring. He lies, just 14 months old, on a small red blanket cushioned by a cheap mattress on the floor, occasionally crying, his head twice the size it should be, blind and paralysed.
"Every time I watch my son, I'm dying inside," he says, tears running down his face. "I think about his destiny.
: April 25, 2012 6:53 PM : April 26, 2012 6:33 PM
He alleges that a teenager in a remote Iraqi village run by the militant Islamist group, al-Qaeda was carrying a weapon to protect himself.
"(The boy) approached the house we were in and the (US) soldiers who were watching our backs, one of them put a bullet right in the back of his head. Unfortunately it didn’t kill him," he tells Australian Story.
"We all spent the next 20 minutes listening to his tortured breath as he died."
Ware goes on to describe his mental state during that time, in which he realized that he was "more concerned with the composition" of his photo than he was with intervening in some way. "I indeed had been indifferent as the soldiers around me whose indifference I was attempting to capture," Ware says.
Ware also attested to his desire to expose more people to the horrors of war:
He dreams of renting out a theater and subjecting an audience to it in full surround sound; that way people would know what it’s really like over there. "It’s my firm belief that we need to constantly jar the sensitivities of the people back home," he says. "War is a jarring experience. Your kids are living it out, and you’ve inflicted it upon 20-odd million Iraqis. And when your brothers and sons and mates from the football team come home, and they ain’t quite the same, you have an obligation to sit for three and a half minutes and share something of what it’s like to be there."
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And that’s why drone warfare has become such a weapon of choice. You have video game jockeys sitting on their asses in front of consoles of digital displays at an Air Force base outside Las Vegas, targeting suspected terrorists in Afghanistan. After a couple of quick kills, they take the rest of the day off.
It’s only later, that we get the reports of civilians decimated as collateral damage.
Oops!
These new lethal toys are used both for surveillance and targeted assassinations.
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