Now someone tell me where we got the right to use robotic weapondry to attack other countries citizens?

These drones have a significant collateral damage capability attached to them.  I guess we can scale back the purchase of fighters, bombers and pilots with their retirements.

Can’t wait to see them buzzing over my house and neighborhood.

Using drones to kill is an act of cowardice.  That the use of force is the primary method of Western corporate domination, tells us all we need to know about its complete lack of legitimacy.  Might is no substitute for right, and no people will knowingly tolerate such abuses for long.  While the American people are only starting to see the effects of these abuses at home, those in other lands who which have been on the receiving end of the Washington Consensus already know the US for what it is and what it has done to them for decades.  They are the ones who continue to pay the real price for Western avarice, they are the ones who’ve been impoverished, whose resources have been plundered, whose countries have been invaded, whose leaders have been killed or propped-up or deposed.  It is their innocents that have been starved and it is their homes and farms and way of life has been turned into a living hell.  While the US official thugs prattle on endlessly about their own goodness, the prattle and lies dutifully accepted and repeated by a fawning bought-and-paid-for media, the world’s majority know that nothing the US says can be trusted, no promise will be kept, no regime profitable to the handful of oligarchs is too brutal.  Fair play and decency are concepts unknown to the corporate state, a cancer on mankind. 

American officials hide behind laws they think will protect them, armies they think will defend them.  So have other tyrants.  They believe themselves to be untouchable while they kill and torture and invade and destroy.  So have other tyrants who believed themselves so powerful and so well-established, that they were safe from any responsibility or retribution.  They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.

The Yemeni theater of operations today is what we called in Nam live fire practice.

gerard:

I guess Obama is attacking Yemen as a sop to those who wonder why he doesn’t attack Syria, or some other non-oil country. He’s showing he’s an equal opportunity war-monger.

Maybe he’s just showing off for the Iranians.

He inherited two wars which he promised to end, and instead he’s now fighting four. COOL!

“...as things get more and more chaotic in Yemen, the space for the Americans to operate in gets bigger,” says the “think-tanker” from the Carnegie Endowment for PEACE. ??

This article is so patently insane that a careful reading is essential to be followed by a detailed, line-by-line response.

Food for Hedges’ next Monday commentary, I hope.