When others are selected to die

A Never-ending Drone War - Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy

“Targeted killings have exacted a considerable toll, far beyond what anyone imagined in the immediate post-9/11 era. Although the publicly available numbers vary among research organizations, an estimated 3,400 people have been killed -- 13 percent of whom were civilians. To more fully understand the scope of these operations, the charts below present data derived by the New America Foundation, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), and the Long War Journal.”

 

Somewhere there is a death panel that condemned 3400 people.  None were presumed innocent, while many were acknowledged as innocent collateral damage.

 

War is hell, but is this really war?  Or is this just what we do when people get in the way.