PrintJuly 8, 2011
Obama Plays Pandora with Drones
Our President points at someone that he, in his sole discretion, considers a threat and says: "Die!" And somewhere in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, or somewhere else we've not been informed of, that person, or someone an intelligence agent believes is that person, duly dies or is wounded or somehow escapes the missiles fired from a drone flying in the vicinity. So also with whatever number of associated or just unlucky folk are nearby. President Obama uses an active, extensive, mechanized assassination program,
Columnist Eugene Robinson asked serious questions recently in his column: "Assassination by Robot: Are We Justified?" He's concerned with the potential errors among widely scattered spies, equipment operators, and decision-makers, and also with what he called doubtful accountability. His greatest concern is the morality of using assassination as policy and here, on a comparatively large scale, pointing to 215 drone attacks in...(Read Full Article)
