Tom Engelhardt | Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars

As usual with articles from TomDispatch.com this one is very lengthy ................but also as usual it is informational and provacative...............well worth the read......................PEACE..........Scott

Tom Engelhardt | Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Now, keep our present
drones, those MQ-1 Predators and more advanced
MQ-9 Reapers, in mind for a moment. Remember that, as
you read, they're cruising Iraqi, Afghan, and Pakistani
skies looking for potential 'targets,' and in Pakistan's
tribal borderlands, are employing what Centcom commander
General David Petraeus calls 'the right of last resort'
to take out 'threats' (as well as tribespeople who just
happen to be in the vicinity.) And bear with me while
I offer you a little potted history of the modern
arms race."