Predator Drones

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I read this morning in Slate that The Los Angeles Times leads with word that the Bush administration is sending Predator aircraft "equipped with sophisticated new surveillance systems" to target militants inside Pakistan. This new technology was apparently a key weapon in the fight against Iraqi insurgents and now drones with this special equipment are being pulled from other areas and sent to help out in Pakistan. This is yet another example of how the Bush administration has decided to pursue more unilateral attacks in Pakistan instead of trying to cooperate with the Pakistani government.

So instead of communicating and engaging in diplomacy, the Bush administration has once again begun unilateral, aggressive warfare against another country.

Probably there are lots of bad guys operating in the border tribal areas of Pakistan. And lots of people who hate America. I don’t doubt it at all.

But it sure is getting easier and easier to kill innocent men, women, and children in hopes of maybe getting some of these “evil doers” also. President Bush and many of the top brass in the military no longer pay much attention to this collateral damage.

If Bush and Cheney and their right-wing, religious fanatic fellow travelers could only look in the mirror without any bias or preconceptions, in many cases they would see looking back at them an image of an “evil doer.”
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In trying to defeat these Muslim terrorists they have become almost as twisted, dishonest, and evil as their enemies. How truly sad.
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