Drones cause ‘growing hatred of America,’ bipartisan Senate panel told By Ernesto Londoño,
[Excerpted] A bipartisan panel of senators held a spirited and unusually public debate Tuesday afternoon about the legality and unintended consequences of America’s targeted killings overseas, a forum convened amid growing calls for stronger oversight of the government’s use of armed drones outside conventional battlefields.
…“They fear that their home or a
neighbor’s home could be bombed at any time by a U.S. drone,” said Muslimi, who
studied in the United States as an exchange student when he was 16. “What
radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village, one drone strike
accomplished in an instant: There is now an intense anger and growing hatred of
America.”
…Rosa
Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who served as a Pentagon policy
adviser, … ‘when a government claims for
itself the unreviewable power to kill anyone, anywhere on Earth, at any time,
based on secret criteria and secret information discussed in a secret process
by largely unnamed individuals, it undermines the rule of law.’...
Majia here: Drone warfare is symptomatic of growing fascism by the US.
Majia's Blog: Drone Warfare Arms Race Escalates
majiasblog.blogspot.com/.../drone-warfare-arms-race-escalates...ShareMay 30, 2012 – http://www.thenation.com/video/168007/jeremy-scahill-short-history-drone-warfare?rel=emailNation [Introduction to the video] "The United ...
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