In Afghanistan more civilians are killed by the Taliban than by NATO forces by a large factor. Compared to other types of weaponry drones have the least amount of civilian collateral damage.
The rest of your comments indicate that you may not be familiar with Ted Rall.
He is a terrible artist, his cartoons are not funny, he continually includes significantly wrong factual asides and he is well known for confusing outrageous untrue shock blab as provocative progressive commentary.
He has been dropped by most progressive publications, like the Village Voice, for his lack of humor and reckless statements.
Here is a classic Ted Rall low ball:
http://assets.amuniversal.com/33f0e450635f012ee3c300163e41dd5b
Here are the factual errors in that cartoon:
1) Pat Tillman was not an ignorant racist who wanted to "kill Arabs". He in fact was a progressive who wasn't tied to materialism and wanted to defend his country after 9/11.
2) Tillman did not support "Bush's wars" and did not want to go to Iraq, a conflict he didn't support.
3) Al Queda was never based in Pakistan
4) Afghanistan is resource rich and is not ever going to be a major exporter of mineral or energy resources due to accessibility, security and transportation obstacles that will remain for decades. The one natural gas project that guys like Rall grasp on to is a UN paper study of using natural gas in remote areas of Afghanistan to be used in energy deficient areas in remote ares of Pakistan.
5) Tillman was never an idiot or a sap, that is who Rall is.
6) Rall is no longer a commercially viable cartoonist and isn't published in any publications that I am aware of.
7) Rall was a frequent visitor on Hannity and Colmes where they would use the tactic of getting some whacked out 'liberal' and get them to make outrageous points and then show how whacked out liberals are. He was also employed for a while by the country's largest RW talk show radio station KFI.
8) His most recent publication is a denouncement of President Obama. This is his description of the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Obama-Hope-Change-Revolt/dp/1609804503
In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.
Ted Rall is consistently wrong on just about everything. Even when you agree with him on a policy you can't help but his outrageous distortion of fact.
I just don't think that Ted Rall is DU worthy.
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