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Zo, stelt President May Kill Anybody He tevreden, Juist?

Woensdag, 17 September, 2008

Lew Rockwell | Onder vele haan-en-stier waren de verhalen door het beleid van Bush tijdens lood-omhooggaand die op gang aan zijn aanval op Irak worden geplaatst over nu-berucht hommels van dood. Later, werd het voldoende duidelijk dat deze zogenaamde bedreiging niet meer substantie dan anderen het beleid had en de media van de lapdogheersende stroming tot een lichtgelovig publiek hadden gediend.

Hoewel de belachelijk primitieve Iraakse hommels geen capaciteit van om het even welke aard hadden om het Amerikaanse publiek te berokkenen, de dodelijkheid van de V.S. de hommels is een andere kwestie. Roofdier hommels uitgerust met De raketten van Hellfire verstrek nu de V.S. overheid met een middel om te vliegen over grondgebied dat de V.S. de grond troepen durven niet doordringen, waarnemend activiteiten ter plaatse, en dodende mensen daar met, zullen wij, een minimum van gepast proces zeggen.

In November 2002, bijvoorbeeld, BBC Nieuws gerapporteerd: „Agentschap van de Intelligentie van Amerika voerde het Centrale (de CIA) een aanval in Yemen uit dat zes veronderstelde leden van al-Qaeda van Oussama ben Laden netwerk, volgens de ambtenaren van de V.S. doodde. De mensen stierven toen jeep zij reisten in door een raket geraakt werd die van een onbemand vliegtuig van de CIA in brand wordt - dat wordt verondersteld gestoken om een Roofdierhommel, de bovengenoemde bronnen van de V.S. te zijn.“

De V.S. de krachten hebben ook het Roofdier actief in Afghanistan en, onlangs, in het gebied Waziristan van Pakistan gebruikt. Vandaag, las ik rekening van een hommelaanval dichtbij de stad van Miramshah in het Noorden Waziristan dat wordt gemeld „minstens 14 mensen gedood te hebben en 12 anderen,“ met inbegrip van „minstens zes vrouwen en kinderen verwond te hebben.“

In Afghanistan, hebben dergelijke luchtaanvallen, niet altijd door hommels, natuurlijk, tot een ticklish dilemma voor de overheid geleid Karzai aangezien het een echte overheid, eerder dan de V.S. beweert te zijn. marionet het eigenlijk is. De officiële protesten zijn meer en meer schreeuwend geworden, hoewel ik geen bewijsmateriaal dat de V.S. heb gezien. de krachten bedoelen hun verrichtingen in reactie te veranderen.

Een welke ontzagwekkende macht de voorzitter en, met zijn vergunning, zijn ondergeschikte ambtenaren bezitten: zij kunnen doden mensen bij zullen, met inbegrip van die personen' vrouwen en kinderen, zonder risico wat van het ontvangen van terugkeerbrand of andere retribution. Zeker is dit het lang-gezochte hoogtepunt van de zoektocht van de Republikein om“ wet en orde te vestigen.“

Wat me tot opmerking inzake deze kwestie, echter leidt, niet zijn technologische noten en bouten of zijn verbinding met hoofd-marionettenrelaties in zuidwestenAzië, maar eerder volledige insouciance is waarmee het Amerikaanse publiek rapporten van sterfgevallen door hommel begroet. I do not exaggerate if I say that the general reaction is “ho-hum.” Well, the average American says, that disposes nicely of another “bad guy.” The gratuitous murder of the bad guy’s family members, neighbors, and other innocent persons in the vicinity appears to create no blip on the average American’s moral radar screen. Perhaps Americans do not consider Yemenis, Afghanis, and Pakistanis to be real human beings whose right to life we are obliged to respect?

Is death by drone simply another occasion when the president, having labeled a set of actions as a “war,” believes and acts as though he has carte blanche to dish out death and destruction willy nilly?

Of course, reports of drone attacks usually refer to militants, Taliban forces, or al Qaeda members. To this information, we might well respond: yeah, who says? If we are content to assume that U.S. intelligence agents, who nearly always get their information from collaborators in the target territories, really know whom they are targeting, then we are certainly easily satisfied. One does not have to make an extensive survey of U.S. government claims about Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other places in southwest Asia over the past seven years to see that for the most part the U.S. commanders, from the Commander in Chief on down to the sweatiest noncom on patrol, are either more or less clueless or the biggest liars on the planet. I do not rule out that they are both.

The upshot is that the people who cooperate in getting to the point at which someone pushes the button to send the Hellfire toward its selected target may in fact not know for sure whom they are about the kill, or how many others will be killed along with this ostensible ”enemy” or who those others are.

Without launching into a massive  geopolitical inquiry, we might well pause from time to time to ask, What are U.S. forces doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan anyhow? Surely they are not there to capture or kill the persons responsible for the crimes of 9/11, because they have already proved beyond all doubt that they are incapable of doing so (as Osama bin Laden’s videos periodically remind us). They are, however, all too capable of diverting their energies from that objective toward unrelated goals, such as attacking and occupying Iraq.

We Americans find ourselves, then, observing with extreme moral disengagement as the president and his subordinates murder persons whose identities remain uncertain along with assorted others whose only crime is being in the same area as the targeted individuals – after all, the Hellfire, which makes a very big blast, can scarcely be described as a surgically precise killing instrument.

Moreover, the president’s use of this remote-control-execution device apparently has no geographical limits, because, as he assures us, the “war on terror” has none. Today, a dirt road in Waziristan; tomorrow, the Santa Monica Freeway.  It will be interesting to see, when drone attacks are carried out in this country, whether the American public gives a damn.

Robert Higgs [send him mail] is senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. He is also a columnist for LewRockwell.com. His most recent book is Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government. He is also the author of Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy, Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11 and Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society.


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