Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Armed and Dangerous

Drones don’t kill people; disposition matrices kill people. And so if you want to know how the current debate on drones is going to end up, take a look at how all the debates on guns have ended up, over the last 30 years or so. Consider drones not as a novel technology but as a sophisticated version of a technology that has defined our past and our present -- a technology with a precedent.

Consider them not as an expensive way of killing people but as a potentially cheap one; not as a recondite technology but as a technology soon readily available; not as a technology that favors the powerful but rather as a technology that will one day serve to empower everyone from rogue states to non-state actors.

Consider drones as the Glock 9mm of the national security-state.

And what the world will be like when everybody has them.

  Charlie Pierce


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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