"Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study says - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed far more people than the United States has acknowledged, have traumatized innocent residents and largely been ineffective, according to a new study released Tuesday.
The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%."
So, our President is shedding tears in public over a horrendous tragedy. That is right and proper. Fortunately for shut-ins and morons, this gives the media something to vomit over the airwaves 24/7 for the next week to sell more commercial.
While we obsess over every single bit of minutiae in this case as if we actually the investigating it ourselves, and while every reporter at every news conference is dying to ask the one question that will make them sound important and worthy of a job in national news, we-as a nation-are doing the same thing on a regular basis. It just doesn't matter because they are little, poor, brown babies in foreign, Third-World countries and it is being done by, and at the behest of 'sane, rational professionals' in the name of 'National Security'.
Notice I am not mentioning what horrendous tragedy.
I am probably the only blogger in America who isn't.
The sheer fact that one is getting wall-to wall coverage and the other gets only tertiary coverage is even more disgusting.
All the innocents die as part of the same struggle, and only a few are actually given a shit about by anyone but their loved ones and a precious few activists.'via Blog this'
The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%."
So, our President is shedding tears in public over a horrendous tragedy. That is right and proper. Fortunately for shut-ins and morons, this gives the media something to vomit over the airwaves 24/7 for the next week to sell more commercial.
While we obsess over every single bit of minutiae in this case as if we actually the investigating it ourselves, and while every reporter at every news conference is dying to ask the one question that will make them sound important and worthy of a job in national news, we-as a nation-are doing the same thing on a regular basis. It just doesn't matter because they are little, poor, brown babies in foreign, Third-World countries and it is being done by, and at the behest of 'sane, rational professionals' in the name of 'National Security'.
Notice I am not mentioning what horrendous tragedy.
I am probably the only blogger in America who isn't.
The sheer fact that one is getting wall-to wall coverage and the other gets only tertiary coverage is even more disgusting.
All the innocents die as part of the same struggle, and only a few are actually given a shit about by anyone but their loved ones and a precious few activists.'via Blog this'
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