With unmanned, remote-controlled drones increasingly in use from Pakistan to Palestine, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, we are grimly reminded about the latest lethal machines from the high-tech military-industry complex and the putative robotics revolution in warfare. From Hungry Beast TV.
Addendum
It is also worth noting that the Obama administration has dramatically stepped up the drone “program” from its predecessor, sharply increasing the number of U.S. Predator and Reaper drone strikes in Pakistan. The New Yorker also has a piece on the CIA’s covert drone program, and the Real News has a video clip on the zionist entity’s “remote-control occupation”.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
See Robot Wars at Hungry Beast: Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
Face it. You [we] all should just surrender now….
Its pretty disturbing, I know, but its not the first time technology has seemingly run away from us and we’ve pulled back from the brink, is it? I imagine people felt similarly in the 50s when the nuclear age had well and truly arrived. The sheer destructive power is mind-boggling — as awesome as our creative power and potential, I suppose. Of course one hopes that as a species we do not destroy ourselves by allowing one to overrun the other.
I noticed this link over at your blog and thought it was worth highlighting -
Scott Horton on the CIA’s Secret Drone War:
Yet for all their high-tech high-lethality toys, the US military is still foundering in Afghanistan particularly and probably Iraq and Pakistan as well … at a cost to so many people and families. Madness. The Obamacons have only amplified the Bush administration’s drone “program”:
And to throw in something else I was just reading: Paul Craig Roberts has a great straightforward style and he writes in a recent piece:
Yet I don’t think he subscribes to a resources or energy determinism, but simply acknowledges it as a major reason for being there in Afghanistan.
What he writes about the influence of the israel Lobby on Congress as reflected in the reprehensible recent decision to condemn the Goldstone Report is spot on:
Ain’t that the truth.