drone strikes

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...g_report_.html


According to this Washington Post report, of the 581 militants killed by these drone strikes in 2010, two were on the most-wanted list. A “militant," by the way, is just a military-age man the U.S. government has killed by drone. If you’ve got a certain kind of faith in bureaucracy, you’ll trust that those 579 were a threat to your freedom.


why the U.S. might need an arsenal of 7000 drones, how the U.S. government can conscionably call each military-age male it kills with those drones a “military combatant” just by virtue of having killed him, how it is that Barack Obama can refuse to offer any information at all on the process by which he decides whom to target.


here's a link to the ny times story on obama's 'kill list'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/wo...oc.semityn.www


It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.


fat lot of good that posthumous finding would be, they wouldn't be less dead.