COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ROY WENZL IN THE GUARDIAN
The kill chain: inside
the unit that tracks targets for US drone wars
I cannot read an article like this.
Obama's industrial-scale extrajudicial killing system is
moral filth. it violates every principle any of us were raised to honor -
principles from parents, schools, and churches.
Indeed, the use of the word “wars” in this context is
sickeningly dishonest. How is it war for a computer operated drone to fly over
some people and fire a Hellfire missile at them?
I still cannot believe it is so casually accepted in our
so-called democracies which claim rule of law. One would have hoped people
would rise to reject this revolting practice.
After all, only a few decades ago many were appalled by what
went on in Argentina under the military junta with people clubbed and drugged
and thrown into the ocean from airplanes.
Now, of course, American authorities at that time were fully
aware of what was going on, and who knows maybe the CIA worked in cooperation
to identify "leftists" for being disappeared.
After all, in the Indonesian genocide against communists at
the fall of Sukarno, the US officials actually submitted lists of names for the
savage fury which saw at least half a million have their throats cut and their
bodies dumped into rivers.
Our politicians and press and some historians like to wonder
how it is that regimes like Stalin’s or Hitler’s could carry on the way they
did without massive public objection. I think we have the answer before our
eyes.
And, in response to a comment below, I am aware Britain is
engaged in this horror, too. Of course, that is the way it is these days with
America demanding and its European “allies” responding as good “willing
helpers.”
