Alternet Reports on Worldwide Network of Drone Bases

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The Feed • 10-24-11

Alternet and TomDispatch have jointly published Nick Turse's valuable new report on US drone bases around the world. Read it here.

Actual occupations will probably always require "boots on the ground." But the increasing use of drones -- large and small -- renders assassinations and airborne destruction an increasingly risk-free proposition for the attackers. What happens to moral judgment when fighting a "war" becomes indistinguisable from playing a video game? Indistinguishable, that is, for those with their hands on the joysticks. Read the whole thing here.