[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Comparing drone views from two military women

[Karen Aram]

Yesterdays interview of Jimmy Dore by Aaron Mate is quite good: 

https://youtu.be/ufduP0bLfAY


> On Nov 17, 2019, at 12:10, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> I recently re-watched "National Bird" a documentary from 2016 about the drone war and I came across an interesting quote that reminded me of something Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said.
> 
> Rep. Tulsi Gabbard from https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/
> 
> > So, with these terrorist cells, for example, yes, I do still believe
> > that the right approach to take is these quick strike forces, surgical
> > strikes, in and out, very quickly, no long-term deployment, no long-term
> > occupation to be able to get rid of the threat that exists and then get
> > out and the very limited use of drones in those situations where our
> > military is not able to get in without creating an unacceptable level of
> > risk, and where you can make sure that you’re not causing, you know, a
> > large amount of civilian casualties.
> 
> Heather Linebaugh served in the United States Air Force from 2009 until March 2012. Her bio in The Guardian says she worked in intelligence as an imagery analyst and geo-spatial analyst for the drone program during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
> 
> Two years before Rep. Gabbard said that Heather Linebaugh said:
> 
> > Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons, being
> > able to make 'surgical strikes', to me it's completely ridiculous,
> > completely ludicrous to even make those statements. It's as flawed as it
> > can be with those people operating it from across the world. If they
> > really think they can send a bomb through a window of a compound and hit
> > one militant then why are we seeing so many civilians die of collateral
> > damage? I'd like to ask those politicians have they not been notified of
> > that? Do they not know what's going on in their own war that they're
> > controlling?
> 
> Linebaugh is also the author of:
> 
> "I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on"
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military
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