If you listen to the media, our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a "betrayal", while our occupation of the country was benevolent and costless. That assumes the media reported on our 20-year long occupation at all.
This reminds me of Avatar.
This crossed my FB feed from a fellow DFH dog trainer.
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You may not believe Trump will be able to diminish our country’s institutions or damage our society. If so, I urge you to think again about the darkness that dwells in the hearts of so many and what happens when discontent is intentionally channeled through it.
Back in 2012 a senior U.S. army officer let it be know that we were targeting "children with potential hostile intent" in Afghanistan.
If you don't remember this, you aren't alone. Few Americans care about Afghan lives.
I so wish I lived on the East Coast.
Jeremy Scahill has published a new book on drone warfare. His first book was on Blackwater and this follows up from that book and his second book Dirty Wars. Since Glenn will be there from Brazil, and probably other notable people will be in the audience, and the tickets are really cheap, and jeremy had a tweet that tickets going fast and would probably be sold out, ...
This is an article that I wrote back in 2012 that in light of The Intercept's recent articles seems worth revisiting.
It's 2020, and unless Mr. Obama has successfully declared himself President-for-life, somebody else is President. Perhaps this time the lesser evil has lost. Thanks to the groundwork laid by President Obama and the boys at DARPA, the new president has the sort of technology that dystopian fiction is based upon.
In 2020 the president has at his disposal the drone technology to surveil anyone, anywhere on earth. The technology has the visual resolution to see disturbed dirt from a mile high in the sky and track footprints, to identify individuals using biometric data, even to "see" through walls and ceilings. Drones will also be outfitted with the means to collect electronic communications, phone calls, texts, gps location data, etc., creating a tool that can track individuals in the physical realm as well as their "footprints" in cyberspace to deliver the information needed for lethal actions
In 2020 the Earth will be surrounded by a triple canopy of drones at various heights to surveil us and deliver sudden death and destruction from above, wherever on earth or space the president desires:
At the lowest tier of this emerging U.S. aerospace shield, within striking distance of Earth in the lower stratosphere, the Pentagon is building an armada of 99 Global Hawk drones equipped with high-resolution cameras capable of surveilling all terrain within a 100-mile radius, electronic sensors to intercept communications, efficient engines for continuous 24-hour flights, and eventually Triple Terminator missiles to destroy targets below.
US Sends Ground Troops, Drones to Cameroon
Open-Ended Mission to Stop 'Anti-Colonial Movement'
Invoking the War Powers Act, President Obama informed Congress today that he is deploying 300 ground troops and drones to the West African nation of Cameroon on a mission aimed at helping governments tamp down a “regional Muslim anti-colonial movement.”
The White House says the deployment is going to be part of “a broader regional effort” and that the mission is totally open-ended, with the troops to remain until they are “no longer needed” in the country, though as usual they declined to lay out what this situation would look like.
