Killer Drones
by digby
So the Times Square bomber comes from an elite Pakistani family and was upset by the drone attacks. The first is interesting because it flies in the face of the common assumption that these guys are all messed up lower class kids who would never go this way if they only had Best Buy and porn at their disposal. This incident and the similar class identity of the Christmas bomber speaks to something quite different going on. We might want to start looking beyond our facile "they hate us for our freedom" (and money) explanation.
The fact that he's upset about the drone attacks is especially interesting considering this story from 1989 that's up on Michael Moore's site today, 'quoting the suspects Dad, a high level Pakistani military officer. He complains about attacks coming from Afghanistan under the Russian occupation in the same area. Strange how these things seem to all come back to the same thing, doesn't it? Plus ca change yadda, yadda, yadda.
And it also points out just how dumb it was for Obama to be making jokes about those drone attacks on national TV at that stupid White House Correspondence Dinner. I'm not saying anyone should be censored But he is the president, innocent people are dying in those attacks and it's causing a huge amount of unrest in Pakistan. It wasn't that funny and certainly wasn't political satire or some kind of important blow for free speech. All presidents should probably make it a rule not to yuk it up over WMD and air attacks. It's unnecessary.
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