Message creep tracks mission creep. “The real problem is Pakistan!” Mechanized hunter-killer falcons wander out of the Graveyard and hurl hellfire. Afghanistan becomes “AfPak.” The strike areas grow. A widening gyre whose center cannot hold. April 4, 1967: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gives one of the most important and least remembered speeches of his [...]
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Dr. King, Drones and Widening War
Posted: April 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Martin Luther King, nonviolence, P.W. Singer, Pakistan, Predator, Reaper, Wired for War
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