As CIA Drone War Deaths Increase, So Does Anti-U.S. Sentiment

New American ^ | Friday, 03 August 2012 11:45 | Joe Wolverton, II

[onedoug]

This is how soetoro wages war.

[ichabod1]

PAkistani ambassador Sherry Rehman? That doesn’t sound right.

[ichabod1]

Everybody is just going to have to get used to it. Drones are the wave of the future. Small, difficult to detect, lethal. Driver 9000 miles away.

[robowombat]

You are correct. You have spotted a significant semantic trick by which the author conflates all drone strike fatalities as ‘people’ who it is inferred are ‘civilians’ and therefore Innocent noncombatants. I don't agree with everything I post. I post what seems to be interesting and provocative news or opinion appearing as news (such as this item) for Freepers to enjoy.

[robowombat]

You are correct, congrats. The ISI will conduct covert attacks on US assets in Pakistan to ‘prove’ that Pakistanis have been driven to do these things because of the drone strikes to try and generate leverage for the Pak government to pressure the US to cut back on if not stop drone strikes in the tribal territories. That would seem to indicate the drone strikes are having a significant negative effect on the ISI’s terrorist and drug smuggling clients in the tribal areas

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, no, they’ve stopped *liking* us?!?

Thanks robowombat.

[bigheadfred]

The “people” killed in drone strikes are highly vetted. To even infer, or worse, blatantly say they are “civilians” is an insult. And complete horsesh!+.

If we wanted to indiscriminately wipe them out, we would stage some thing, like burning a koran, to bring them out and get them to group up in protest. Then hit them with the napalm.