Scary

The author of a story about Predator drone attacks, in the current issue of The New Yorker, said this morning on MSNBC that such attacks are "scary" and that they desensitize us from the very real act of murdering someone. She said that these attacks by remote controlled aircraft are responsible for large numbers of civilian or collateral deaths, in addition to those being targeted for extermination. Effective? Yes. Scary? I sure hope so.

For those trying to keep score in the war between progressives and liberals, socialists and Democrat dogs of both the blue and yellow varieties, while one argues against aerial warfare, another promotes it. War by remote control is the very strategy being pushed by VP Joe Biden in Afghanistan.

Unrelated, but nevertheless just as chilling, the Obama Administration is easing up on strongman Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, in the hope (there it is again) that his government will stop the genocide in Darfur. In April, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for al-Bashir's arrest on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Al-Bashir has done nothing to warrant any change in U.S. policy mind you, he just provides another tyrant for Obama to appease.