The most grotesque and blatantly illegal aspect of drone killing: Double Tapping

[dreamnightwind]

92. Friends, familiy, associates

of the people they attacked, as I said above.

I agree with your statements about the effects on our relationships there. Does our leadership agree? I don't know. I do know they aren't stupid. Misguided seems more likely.

Their line of thinking might be along the lines that the people likely to be killed and the other people in the area likely to be enraged are people we cannot positively connect with anyway, much like we at DU look at hard-core RW areas as people who will not respond to reason no matter what. They (our war-on- terra leadership) deal in cold, inhuman logic such as profiling and algorithmic risk assessment. If you're living in a certain area your "scores" are probably pretty high regardless of who you are. Sick stuff.

And let's face it, our broader military and policy goals are not to peacefully disengage, they are to provide unchallenged access of the planet's natural resources to the multinational corporations who intend to extract them and profit from them. We very much want to be engaged and militarily involved in as much of the middle east as possible. Disengagement is reserved for situations which are firmly "in control". I use "we" loosely, speaking for the powers that be.