The Brave, New World of Armed Drones and UAVs. Thank God I Am Not A Child Born Today!
As American planes bomb a hospital operated by Medecins Sans
Frontieres (MSF) in the Afghan town of Kunduz, killing patients and
medical staff, this terrible horror follows previous incidents around
the world that replicate the example of claimed ‘collateral damage’
inflicted upon hospitals and civilian installations, in Gaza, by its
attackers in 2014 and earlier.
This precedent established by Israeli-invented drones and condoned by
much of the world, in accepting the shocking killing of innocent
civilians, as ‘collateral damage’ in the pursuit of the liquidation of
its enemies, turns accepted international law upon its head.
It is not difficult to foresee a world, in maybe only ten years’
time, in 2025, where not only Israeli and American drones, but also
British, French, Turkish, Indian or Pakistani armed, unmanned aerial
vehicles will suddenly appear in the skies above our homes, anywhere, in
Manchester, London, Munich or Marseilles, to kill political activists
or protestors, at will. No judicial process, just summary execution of
perceived enemies, unwanted critics and the collateral killing of
innocent bystanders.
Welcome to the brave, new world of UAV warfare that will in the very
near future determine all our lives, and our deaths, controlled by
anonymous operatives sitting at computer consoles, and drinking coffee,
in rooms thousands of miles distant in Tel Aviv or Arlington County,
Virginia.
Thank the Lord I am not a child born today.
