As Long as We Use Drones, Celebrating "American Values" Is a Farce
After decades of asymmetrical warfare, Americans have lost touch with the humanity of civilians forced to endure the extreme violence of our “mistakes.”
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After decades of asymmetrical warfare, Americans have lost touch with the humanity of civilians forced to endure the extreme violence of our “mistakes.”
Twenty-two years later, drones continue to be instruments of civilian slaughter and the language deployed by successive administrations to describe such slaughter has served to sanitize that fact. Whether it’s the use of “target” or “collateral damage,” both minimize the reality that human beings are being murdered. Taken together with a larger war-on-terror narrative in…
By Maha Hilal | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - “I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray …
In a June 2012 piece headlined “Praying at the Church of St. Drone,” I wrote, “Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in - Maha Hilal for Antiwar.com Original
“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”