Over 700 killed in 44 drone strikes in 2009
—via azspot:
Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians.
vruz: there’s one worse thing than neocon moralists and the pseudo pious, and that is the secular technocrats that truly believe at heart in efficiency and superiority through technology applied to resolution of human conflict. remember the first Iraq war and how it was going to be a triumph of ‘surgical’ warfare, without civilian deaths? did we not learn anything from Oppenheimer? what these modernist minded hopeful are proposing is none other than vorsprung durch technik. devoid of any humanist doubt, of any ethical concern, pregnant of certainties in your own robotic hegemony in the name of “democracy”, your newfound religion in golems, rand and bits, I can see you from here and I call you out, scum of the earth.
