Comments on: Drones: America's New Air Force
60 Minutes' Lara Logan Reports On The Increasing Use Of Drones In The Battlefield
Add a Comment See all 98 Comments
- The article makes little of the fact that destroying the weapon or its operator is functionally equivalent. Drone pilots are safer, in return for making the continental United States a worthwhile and target-rich environment no matter where in the world the conflict is physically taking place.
I am not complaining, you understand; I am taking a back-door approach to criticizing the Bush Administration for spending billions to invade the wrong nation - while turning their backs on port and border security lest it "interfere with the free flow of commerce".
That is, lest security interfere with profits, shareholder dividends, and CEO paychecks. - Reply to this comment
- The article makes little of the fact that destroying the weapon or its operator is functionally equivalent. Drone pilots are safer, in return for making the continental United States a worthwhile and target-rich environment no matter where in the world the conflict is physically taking place.
I am not complaining, you understand; I am taking a back-door approach to criticizing the Bush Administration for spending billions to invade the wrong nation - while turning their backs on port and border security lest security "interfere with the free flow of commerce".
That is, lest security interfere with profits, shareholder dividends, and CEO paychecks. - Reply to this comment
- When the machine take over the world they are going to need these drones.
- Reply to this comment
- you are wrong. drones were in the field before 9-11. plus, i was using drones as just an example. as technology tilts the battlefield in favor of one side, history teaches us that the other resorts to novel means. there are so many examples now ...roadside bombs, the isreal conflict, where isreal has access to overwhelming u.s. technology 'forcing' jihadists to become human bombs. the worst part of it is that one side (often) the u.s. claims some moral rectitude - saying that these 'terrorists' are targeting civilians, using human shields. how much collateral damage (civilian casualties) has the u.s. caused in iraq - estimated to be at least 65,000 (23 9-11's) ...no winners here
- Reply to this comment
- Totally a fluff, propaganda piece by the Pentagon. Shame on 60 minutes. At least report on critiques to this bombing and ask some pointed questions. Ironically 130 innocent civilians were killed last week in a bombing. But the commander said "we don't make mistakes".
At least we have a well trained work force to do this remote controlled bombing with so many young people addicted to video games. Thanks for landing this top secret scoop about drone bombing. At 11 million a plane, we could use that money to help people that are suffering from our recession, rather than creating another generation of people who learn to hate the USA. Please leave these infomercials for Fox News. - Reply to this comment
- Bush and Cheney let someone (we still don't know who because the official 911 story is BS) fly airplanes into the WTC for political and financial gain. They were able to frighten many, many scared clueless Americans. Some of them are still frightened and just want to kill others, they don't even care if who they kill are innocent.
- Reply to this comment
- Is that right, noloyalisti? I thought it was the murderous cowards who flew those planes into the buildings in New York, idiot!
- Reply to this comment
- do the geniuses at the pentagon realize that using such a technological edge in the battlefield forces our enemies to level the playing field and resort to such nontraditional measures as highjacking commercial airliners and crashing them into buildings and using civilians as human shields. so, in effect, the risk is being shifted to the citizenery. moreover, these things arguably lengthen wars - in past wars, both sides killed so much, they got tired. now, it's just the drip, drip, drip. SO STOOPID!!!!
- Reply to this comment
- By the way, America's new air force are a bunch of murderous cowards who don't care who they kill. So brave.
- Reply to this comment
- America has the best videogamers in the world so the sooner we can make war into a videogame the sooner we can take over the universe!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Reply to this comment
