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                                               February 20-23, 2013

                                           February 2009:
                                           http://www.ted.com/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html

P.W. Singer, in his Ted talk on the
the bold new world of drone warfare,
leads off with a tear-jerker story
about a member of the "Explosive
Ordiance Disposal" bomb-squad in           "At least when a robot dies,
Iraq, getting killed trying to             you don't have to write a
defuse an IED.                             letter home to it's mother."

This story is clearly an attempt                  And if you kill a child
at manipulating the audience into                 with a drone attack, you
seeing the world as Singer does:                  don't have to write any
drones make it easier to kill                     letters, either.
without getting killed, hence
drones are good.                                  The joy of drone warfare
                                                  is never having to say
There are other tear-jerker                       you're sorry.
stories out there, of course,
from civilian non-combatants
who have watched loved-ones
killed in Pakistan by Obama's
drone attacks.                          There are estimates that several
                                        hundred children have died thus
I have my doubts Singer will            far in this great non-war.
ever get to these stories.
                                        http://www.infowars.com/here-are-all-the-children-murdered-by-drone-strikes-at-the-hands-of-obama/
Whoever gets to choose which
tears to jerk wins?  So the                 But I am *sure* that this could
goal is always to make the                  not possibly have any unintended
audience feel more sympathetic              consequences whatsoever. Right?
of Our Brave Boys than for
those funny brown skinned
turban-heads in Pakistan.

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