Droning On 0
The story is about the perceptions of the populace popped by drones.
The widespread perception in Pakistan that civilians, not militants, are the principal victims — a view that is fostered by leading right-wing politicians, clerics and the fighters themselves — fuels pervasive anti-American sentiment and, some argue, has swelled the ranks of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
But an AP reporter who spoke to about 80 villagers at the sites of the 10 attacks in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for militants in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region along the Afghan border, was told that a significant majority of the dead were combatants.
I have no doubt that this will be cited to prove that raining death on innocents from the sky is okay if the percentage of innocents is small enough.
This reminds me of the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, and body counts were all the rage amongst the uniformed set.
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