> They’ve had no choice, however, but to watch by video as whole families died from the Hellfire missiles and other munitions they released and, often enough, they evidently find themselves devastated by the experience.. “A fighter jet might see a target for 20 minutes. We had to watch a target for days, weeks.. We watched his whole life unfold.. Then you watch the death. You see the remorse and the burial.. there is no reset button.”
https://tomdispatch.com/the-civilian-deaths-you-havent-heard-about/
#DroneWars #TomDispatch #NickTurse

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This thread reminds me of headlines I've seen on the #TomDispatch site. Now I have three tabs open to #NickTurse articles from 2012, 214 and 2015, gonna try to read them in order but I'll past the middle link: the intro mentions 'curious pro-#Russian protestors in eastern #Ukraine who tried to liberate an opera house in the city of Kharkiv, mistaking it for city hall'
https://tomdispatch.com/nick-turse-africom-becomes-a-war-fighting-combatant-command/
#MikeDavis on #BlackHawkDown comes to mind?