I woke up to hear some good news for a change-a hellfire missle apparently found its mark, and sent at least 6 terrorists to their eternal rewards!
I’m glad to see that these scum were killed in a manner that didn’t risk any American lives…hopefully, a lot more of these degenerates will shortly be joining their comrades in hell.
All in all, a very pleasant prospect!
I had not been especially listening to the news for at least several days (too depressing), so when I heard this on NPR this morning, I was dumbfounded that this technology exists. And apparently we’ve been employing it before in Afghanistan. I think that a little drone plane that neatly takes out a select few assholes, does minimal damage (I hope) to innocent bystanders, and risks no pilot’s life is a terrific use of technology. In addition, although the planes can’t be really cheap to produce, surely they must cost a lot less than squadrons of bombers or a batch of tanks.
Unless the bystander is the guy some CIA geek shoots it at.
Some guy in an armchair fired at a tall guy because Bin Laden is tall.
Oops.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/07/ret.hellfire.alqaeda/index.html
I firmly doubt the people in the above link were “bystanders” let alone innocent. In both cases I think proper targets were hit even if they didn’t get who they though they would the first time. But your point is well taken.
I’m starting to feel like life is imitating bad science fiction. No more than 10 years from now they will be using this drone technology (hopefully without the Hellfire) to monitor traffic and high crime urban areas. They already tried it DC last month.