Wait, our Intelligence agencies dont realize Facebook posts are conclusive evidence in terror investigations? #fail #intelfailure
@thegalen1 Also, going back to Petraeus joke, we use drones as response to our failure to collect HUMINT, making drones less accurate.
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@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. -
@emptywheel Ok, so follow me here (not being smartass) but should planes not be armored? lowers moral cost of war, more civilians die, etc -
@thegalen1 Lost your meaning in the 140 character limit, I think. -
@emptywheel sry. DM/email? my q is: if less US death = more war, why object to drones and not armor on planes? helmets? body armor?
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@emptywheel reminds me of this: http://bit.ly/6x7Nck drone tech won't stop. driverless car tech wont stop. weaponized tmrw, if not 2day -
@thegalen1 Right, but look at how nakedly the drone args are abt jobs, even in domestic roll out. Why not push industrial strategy instead? -
@emptywheel also agree but same thing w/tanks, planes, and other porky populist arguments clustered in south -
@thegalen1 Yup. Just pointing out it's not necessarily tech driving the proliferatoin, it's the profit motive, jobs. -
@emptywheel absolutely. same as it ever was. old men thinking up new wars for young men to go and fight and die for. do not disagree.
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