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Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 by Accident.

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SanFranciscoZionist5/23/2013 6:39:13 am PDT

Nor would there be much concern if these people had died under artillery fire. We could, you know, level Karachi or San’a block by block, but I don’t know if that’s a real good idea either.

I understand the interest in having a conversation around the implications and issues of the drones, but I don’t understand the apparent nostalgia for the conventional warfare of the twentieth century.

Anyone remember Band of Brothers, the young American guy who turns up as a POW in a German uniform? Parents went home so he could fight for the fatherland? If his folks were killed in the bombing of Berlin, that would have been awful extrajudicial, but then again, not likely anyone would have noticed with the other 20 to 50 thousand people being killed around them.

We could do it that way. It would be easier now. It would kind of suck horrifically.

The real issue is one we’ve been circling around for almost a dozen years now: how do you have a war between a country and an NGO?