Posted July 21, 201113 yr eqrRGZeN3ak&f From RT's Alyona Show... I think a rather disturbing and prescient point is being made here.. US drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan are basically killing about 50 civilians for every 1 "legitimate" target, and the only place where I'm actually hearing this being reported with any depth is on Russia Today... It also seems to me that the CIA are just playing a sort of sophisticated "PS3 game" with these things from thousands of miles away, and therefore are completely detached from the impact on-the-ground. This is the sort of thing that pundits were warning us all about in the early 90s with "Smart Bombs", and the desriptions "Nintendo Casualties" and "Collateral Damage" started coming into the general lexicon... Obviously, these drone attacks are a step beyond the "Smart Bombs" of the '91 Gulf War, but it marks a seriously disturbing trend in modern warfare... Are these civilian deaths actually "deaths" to these people, or are they just "frags", like in a video game...? Discuss....
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