Of Drones and Dishonor William Pfaff

Of Drones and Dishonor

William Pfaff

Paris, April 10, 2013 – War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen – and even if it were a police weapon (as it may – one fears -- become in the future), the United States Department of Defense and the CIA are not police forces, nor has the United States a commission to police the world of its radicals, dijadhists, and religious fanatics, although for too many years it has acted as if it did.

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