California Catholic Daily: Study by Lt Col. Douglas Pryer in the Mar-Apr. 2013 edition of the Military Review: At the start of 2004, when I was the commander of a military intelligence company in Baghdad, my company received five of the … Continue reading
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7500 Drones to Fill US Airspace Within Five Years
Catholic Online: Is that a bluebird on your shoulder? Or, worse yet, a high-tech, drone unmanned aircraft watching your every move? That’s the latest bit of alarming news from the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA. There could be as many as … Continue reading
President’s Executive Branch Hit List: No Accountability
The Guardian: The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that … Continue reading
Tears of the Hitman-in-Chief
Nat Hentoff penned a hard-hitting op-ed piece on the patent hypocrisy of President Obama’s tears for the Sandy Hook victims. Pro-lifers will see the point right away, since the same man who shed those tears is the most viciously pro-abortion … Continue reading
Obama’s ‘Kill List’: An Amorphous Program With No Set Rules
The Lonely Conservative: Well isn’t this interesting? President Obama, the man who won a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, has a kill list. We all knew that, but what’s interesting is he didn’t think Mitt Romney should have been privy to … Continue reading
‘Double-Tap’ Drone Attacks Kill 50 Innocent for Every One Terrorist
A “double-tap” is a term for a hitman’s strike: one bullet in the heart and then one in the head to make sure the target is dead. Jerome Taylor for The Independent: More and more, while the overall frequency of strikes … Continue reading
Reckless Use of Drones and the Apathy for Civilian Life
First Things Anna Williams: We’ve discussed drones on this blog before, generally agreeing that killing enemy combatants with unmanned drones can be morally legitimate but leery about their seemingly indiscriminate use. More on this here.