When legalisms take center stage in a situation like this, think of magicians. Their skill is to focus your attention on the space where nothing that matters is happening -- the wrong hand, the wrong face, the wrong part of the stage -- while they perform their “magic” elsewhere. Similarly, pay attention to the law right now and you’re likely to miss the plot line of our world.US government public relations offices (President, Sec. of State, etc.) are hard at work concocting new justifications for their war crimes in order to continue keeping the consent of its citizens for its never ending "war on terror".
It’s true that, at the moment, articles are pouring out focused on how to define the limits of future drone warfare. My advice: skip the law, skip the definitions, skip the arguments, and focus your attention on the drones and the people developing them instead.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Sex and the Single Drone: The Latest in Guarding the Empire
Click here to access article by Tom Engelhardt from his blog, Tom Dispatch.