An exceedingly callow young denizen of Thinktankistan called
Michael Kugelman has undertaken the task of teaching Pakistanis to stop worrying and love the drone, or at least put up with it, in an op-ed in the online Dawn, and
Matt Taibbi just savages him for it, in his own blog:
So there it is, folks. Welcome to the honor of American citizenship. Should we replace E Pluribus Unum with We Don't Kill as Many Children as Measles? Of course people aren't mad about bombs being dropped on them from space without reason; they're mad because anti-Americanism is alluring!
He also tears a fine new one for the authors of a
Times editorial in favor of a drone court, though he misses
Emptywheel's insight, which I think is indispensable, that it would be a system for punishing crimes
before they are committed.
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| Aerial Target: Design for an unmanned, radio-operated plane for use against Zeppelin aircraft and controlled bomb, 1916. |
Taibbi includes the first real discussion I've seen of the issue of cowardice in drone fighting:
