Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Gotcha!

The Sun headlines with a typical unsympathetic 'Wham, Bam, thank you Cam' in response to the governments decision to kill 2 Brits in Syria with a drone who were allegedly plotting nasty stuff.  I don't think The Guardian's lead was quite the same as that.  Let's hope the parents are not Sun readers.

I've always thought that finishing people off by drone is quite a clinical, albeit crude, way of doing the job.  I don't suppose it's much different in principle from the old fashioned James Bond style of assassination, and is at least quite safe for the executioners.  There's a scene in the film Syriana where the generals in the US target a bad boy and zap him from afar.  Quite a good film by the way and well worth watching.

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