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Topic started on 3-6-2010 @ 05:03 PM by Cygnis

U.S. is world's top user of targeted killings, U.N. says



In the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency, unmanned aircraft -- or drones -- attacked militant targets 45 times. Since President Barack Obama took office, the numbers have risen sharply: 53 last year and 39 so far this year in Pakistan alone, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington foreign policy think tank.


CNN Article

The CIA has been using Drone attacks to do a majority of their dirty work, and it's all classified on who and where they can operate.

That in itself is a scary prospect.

We are using these drones to limit the impact to the loss of our soldiers and allied troops lives, but it also leaves a shady business in operation. The US military and the CIA both are operating drones.

I believe the more and more we use these drones, the more removed we are from the aspect of war itself. When a person can remove themselves from the effects I think it creates a dangerous paradigm. Can we say "Video-game killers".

The article also gives an undertone of the US/CIA accountability being non-existent.


reply posted on 5-6-2010 @ 12:35 AM by Cygnis
reply to post by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi


ahh yup. and the CIA has the world worried and scared.

Personally, I think the CIA needs to be done-away-with.

Any group above the law, is bound to start running things in way we cannot even imagine.

It's a scary prospect. It's long over-due for a change.

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