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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite rationalization for the U.S. drone killings of civilian non-combatants? [View all]MrScorpio
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It's always been terrible.
Just because it's the modern age, it won't prevent it from happening again.
America is the largest purveyor of warfare on the planet. There's a lot of reasons for that, mostly to do with money.
And our political and economic system practically guarantees that any leader who inhabits the White House will engage the military might of the United States somewhere in the world at any particular time.
So, it's pretty much a moot point that civilian non-combatants are dying at hands. They've ALWAYS died at our hands.
The greater issue is warfare itself; our ability to wage it, spend so much money on it, as all as our propensity for it.
Until we figure out a way to have the will to stop waging war itself, I think that it's pretty fucking ridiculous to psychoanalyze this thing.
What it really comes down to the basic reason of Money.
Money corrupts the political system. It's behind the insidious propaganda that militarizes our society and is the source behind the creating of the cultural identity. It creates its own vast economy for war-making. If strips away the power of the media to question our role was a war-maker.
All you have to do is follow the money.
I spent my time in the Pentagon and I know how this thing works. To blame the people for allowing this to happen is ludicrous. The American people are victims of the war-marchine, programmed and conditioned to respond. That book is nothing more that an effort at victim blaming.
But where is the focus on the war MAKERS themselves, those respectable Captains of Industry, the noble houses of the War promoters?
When are they going to pay instead of profit?