"Increasingly,
this is how the United States chooses to fight its wars. Drones lead
the way and dominate the fight against the several non-state actors
we now engage — Al Qaeda, the Shabab in Somalia and now ISIS.
Drones have their benefits: They enable us to fight ISIS without
getting mired on the ground or suffering casualties, making them
politically powerful and appealing."
“In an
interview in GQ Magazine with former drone pilot, Brandon Bryant,
Bryant recalls, 'sitting in a control station on an Air Force base in
Nevada. His three victims were walking on a dirt road in Afghanistan.
After the Hellfire missile fired from the drone struck the three men,
Bryant watched the aftermath on his infrared display. The smoke
clears, and there's pieces of the two guys around the crater. And
there's this guy over here, and he's missing his right leg above his
knee. He's holding it, and he's rolling around, and the blood is
squirting out of his leg, and it's hitting the ground, and it's hot.
His blood is hot,' Bryant says. 'But when it hits the ground, it
starts to cool off; the pool cools fast. It took him a long time to
die. I just watched him. I watched him become the same color as the
ground he was lying on.'”
“But,
won't the day of reckoning arrive? Aren't we engendering the wrath
and indignation of more and more of the world's citizens by our
unilateral, imperious behavior? 'Our violence spawns violence and
never-ending configurations of enraged militants.' Chris Hedges,
TruthDig. Stop drones. Stop perpetual war. Make space peaceful for
all.”
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We already see the test fields of
the weapons of future˙ the drones in Afghanistan, Iraq and
elsewhere. It's not accidental that the arms industries
demonstrate new weapons designed to be used inside urban areas for
suppression of potential riots. There will be no “outside enemy”
in the future. The threat for the dominant system will come from
the interior, the big urban centers.
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The drone story
Conducting “remote-controlled”
wars
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