Rise of the Drones – UAVs After 9/11

[Carsten Wiethoff]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...story.html

"We can't possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us," a senior administration official said. "It's a necessary part of what we do. . . . We're not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of everybody holding hands and saying, We love America.' "

Surely not.

And Glen Greenwald's comment to it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...-kill-list

The pragmatic inanity of the mentality driving this is self-evident: as I discussed yesterday (and many other times), continuous killing does not eliminate violence aimed at the US but rather guarantees its permanent expansion. As a result, wrote Miller, "officials said no clear end is in sight" when it comes to the war against "terrorists" because, said one official, "we can't possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us" but trying is "a necessary part of what we do". Of course, the more the US kills and kills and kills, the more people there are who "want to harm us". That's the logic that has resulted in a permanent war on terror.