According to officials familiar with the situation, US drones fired a pair of missiles against a house in Datta Khel today, destroying the building and killing at least seven people. Two others were wounded.
None of the casualties were identified, but Pakistani officials, as is so often the case, labeled them all “suspected militants.” They claimed the owner of the house was believed to be a member of the Haqqani Network, though exactly who it was or what his position was is unknown.
This is often the case in US drone strikes against targets all over the world, as the use of “targeted strikes” means the US rarely knows the identity of who they are killing, but rather assumes that any group of people gathered in numbers in targeted areas must be up to something.
In North Waziristan this has been particularly true, for while the US has killed many hundreds in the area in recent years, no more than a handful were ever conclusively identified as militants, and a few others, the subjects of lawsuits, identified as civilians. The overwhelming bulk are simply unidentified.
When a group of men set out upon becoming the only powers permissable outsideyour national borders you have effectively admitted to being an Aparthied nation, only your followers or subjects are worthy of life.
What is tragic is that the white minority race that raised up the search for inner peace and worthiness as a high ideal today are in fact the most insane homicidal and self destructive lifeforms on earth.
A young person takes a job at 30K USD, to kill people they know nothing about, other than when told to kill by their superiors by rank, they will kill.
There is no need to question that if ordered to do the same upon US soils the military mind would follow orders and be sure to accept the combat and tech pay along with a high 5 figure sign up bonus.
Oh theymight express queasy guts blowing up home town buildings but after all the bad guys their superiors are after should not be there.
There has come about a sanitizing of warfare, we suppress repirts of our horrors, tortures and rapes theft of rezources and isolate a whole nation into the one sided notion they are out to get us so we must get them first.
Anyone that questions motives or effects from Eurocentrics crimes outside of nation can and when times are slow or your troop need practice they will be killed. It has spread into US where cops kill more unarmed Americans than our military loses in over 30 nations we carry combat assassination and advisory combat training.
Murder by legal has become an industrial occupation, we train nut cases or empty heads of 3-through adulthood years on acceptance of having a need for others to kill in our name and we pay them for doing so.