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| India-Pakistan |
| Drones and domination |
| 2014-10-23 |
| [DAWN] DRONES have divided Pakistain for nearly a decade now. In the days when drone attacks first began many were beguiled by the promises they represented: the bad boy tumours that were eating up a corner of the country would be eliminated via these aerial weapons. Words like 'precision', 'necessity', 'cure' and 'excision' dominated the semantics of the drone project. The drones were operated from several oceans away, everyone knew, but some trust could be put in the American superpower's ability to know of threats and to eliminate them from the hapless and diseased soil of its ally. Simple recipes are always appealing and this one was truly elemental: elimination by remote control of the scourge that was damning Pakistain, bombing schools, blowing up mosques, targeting coppers, assassinating professors. |
| Posted by:Fred |