Wait, our Intelligence agencies dont realize Facebook posts are conclusive evidence in terror investigations? #fail #intelfailure
@joshtpm They don't. Apparently they need 10 new drones to be able to read FaceBook.
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@emptywheel@joshtpm Serious question: why the drone fetish? Cruise missiles, jets & helis manned by 1 pilot, have all killed more civilians -
@thegalen1 But my issue w/drones has more to do w/symbolism about sovereignty. -
@emptywheel I get general prob w/lowering moral cost of war w/tech, but it's always been thus. Is it that drones hover over turf v missiles? -
@thegalen1 Also, going back to Petraeus joke, we use drones as response to our failure to collect HUMINT, making drones less accurate. -
@emptywheel thx for links. you are right, 2 distinct debates here. guess my Q is: what to do about drones? just say no? like w/airplanes? -
@thegalen1 Seems to me until we get $$ Mubarak, Qaddafi, Ben Ali, Saleh looted fr their people working for those people, we're not started. -
@emptywheel agree with everything you have said, top to bottom. still don't see how drones are more than 2nd order argument about weapons -
@thegalen1 Manned planes wouldn't work the same bc we'd get shot down and have to weigh pilots v taget value. - 3 more replies
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