The Drone Code of Conduct, Or Trust Us, Really

• COMMENTS OF GLOBAL CITIZENS

  rosemariejackowski • 3 days ago

  Reminds me of that old quote: “Death has a tendancy to encourage a depressing view of war.” Donald H Rumsfeld
  Drones are a violation of International and Natural Law. They are illegal, just like cluster bombs are. But hey, the US is ‘Exceptional’ and above the law.
  Don’t regulate them. Eliminate them… and the companies that manufacture them.

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    HenryWallace2012 • 3 days ago • parent

    ‘Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” Why damn! Image that.

    During the Vietnam War i remember someone wrote a great piece called “Put the Chickens on the Firing Line’ which really blasted this same kind of mind set of sending fellows and now gals over to fight in some war while the perpetrators sit safely right here in the USA. Phony says it all.

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      dkshaw • 2 days ago •All U.S. wars are for the profit of the 1% in one form or another. I wish the general population would or could somehow realize this. The 1% wants war. Let them go fight.
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  • Elisabet Thor-Larsen • 3 days ago • parent

    …and eliminate, shut down, all the other armament industries too.

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      baruchzed • 3 days ago • parent

      I have thought for years that the arms makers and arms dealers should be charged with crimes against humanity and face trial.
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  beaglebailey • 3 days ago

  There is a diary on Daily Kos right now applauding Obama’s use of drones.
  Disgusting.

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    Obedient Servant • 3 days ago • parent

    I wonder if this Kossack is the same person who once commented here in response to an article about drones.

    I doubt if I could retrieve it, and in any case I don’t want to. But it was one of those brisk, Eminently Sensible, authoritative comments praising the use of drones on a supposedly strictly rational cost-benefit basis.

    It had a condescending tone or subtext of, “OK, all you fools or idiots stupidly bad-mouthing drones– you fail to see that they are in fact a praiseworthy marked tactical improvement over the far messier and more destructive approaches they’ve rendered obsolete!”

    The author either claimed to have a military background, or simply reeked of the sanguinary superciliousness of the “military historian” or analyst. But the case was presented in defense and support of Obama’s naked dronophilia.

    Mercifully, as I recall this comment attracted no support, and turned out itself to be something of a fly-by drone attack.

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      HenryWallace2012 • 3 days ago • parent

      Maybe it was from one of Barry’s Dronellas.
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  REDPILLED • 3 days ago

  Ah, the AmeriKan Dream!
  It used to be “a chicken in every pot”.
  Now it’s “a drone for every police department”.
  Will the Tea Party & NRA members be shooting them down when government drones invade their privacy?

• • HenryWallace2012 • 2 days ago • parent

    Exactly! US history isn’t in the least a straight line. Straight lines are simple, but often too simple or as academics might say too reductionist.
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  GuyTouquet • 3 days ago

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  No doubt hackers are working overtime to turn one of these on Washington. Be on the lookout.

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    dkshaw • 2 days ago • parent

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    I hope it doesn’t hit the whitehouse. I can only imagine the collateral damage. I pray that doesn’t occur.
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  HenryWallace2012 • 3 days ago

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  Trust these kids. They tell the truth. They haven’t been brain washed into BS yet.

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  HenryWallace2012 • 2 days ago

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  In reference to the comment coming in about all wars the USA has been in being all about profit and such, as Will Rogers used to say “It’s not what you know. It’s what you know that just ain’t so.” No that’s not the case do check even the most progressive views on the Second World War and the civil war, and then see if that’s what it was really. I’d go even further as a progressive, but just those illustrate the point. The Second World War was primarilty about survival and even the slightest opportunity to have a democracy, not saying we have or had one. The civil war was due to a great extent to differing views of North and South over slavery. “Surprise!” My namesake would invoke Abraham Lincoln’s reference to the country not “remaining half free and half slave” or it might be vice versa but means the same. Now do check to see the USA attacked Poland thus starting the Second World War or even attacked Japan. Surely all ‘must be waiting with baited breath” for some response on that one.

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  karl_dubhe • 3 days ago

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  Since when do the makers of weapons ever take responsibility for their use? Come now, doesn’t Major Barbara ever get played or read anymore?

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