We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age Audiobook
We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age Audiobook
- Laurie Calhoun
- Findaway Voices
- 2019-01-07
- 11 h 5 min
Summary:
“Last resort is becoming first holiday resort. Courage has become cowardice. Black ops have become standard operating process. An intelligence agency is currently a eliminating machine. Self-defense has become naked aggression. Guilt beyond an acceptable doubt is becoming possible future potential for guilt. Voices of dissent have been irrevocably silenced. Patriots have been replaced by mercenaries. Individual rights have been eclipsed by nervous about the safety of soldiers’ lives. The U.S. war on terrorism provides about We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age been completed using terrorist methods, with formal armed forces states emulating asymmetrical factional killers. Wars necessarily have been supplanted by ever-proliferating wars of preference.”In We Kill Because WE ARE ABLE TO: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age group, Laurie Calhoun examines the twenty-first-century practice of remote-control killing of suspects located in Third World countries and issues visitors to reflect upon the long-range implications-moral, political, psychological and cultural-of this brand-new type of “warfare”. By using provocative analogies and good examples, We Eliminate Because We Can clarifies and criticizes targeted eliminating as incompatible with the ideals and principles of modern Western democratic societies.An audiobook pdf product containing all personal references and records is available for download free at:https://thedroneage.documents.wordpress.com/2019/01/wkbwcaudiobooksupplement.pdfPraise for We Kill Because We Can:Pacific Journalism Review”a robustly argued and disturbing function . has shown the ethical and moral personal bankruptcy and shortsighted goals from the Predator drone program.”Cleverness and Country wide Security¨provides an eclectic and even engrossing cultural, ethical, legal, and philosophical potpourri…¨Web publishers Weekly”This is a dense, detailed, and relentless chronicle of the dismal effects and…minimal great things about targeted killing; competitors of drone warfare will find a lot to bolster their arguments.”OpenDemocracy”A brand new, well-researched and well-written book…”Choice”Calhoun’s criticism of targeted killing is relentless, which position certainly must be heard.”Counterfire¨a powerful reserve which topics drone warfare to moral scrutiny and cannot but expose the lies and hypocrisy of the US.¨Noam Chomsky:”This chilling and in depth survey a lot more than amply demonstrates that drone hits are war crimes…”Richard Gott, author of Britain’s Empire: Level of resistance, Rebellion and Revolt:”Calhoun’s brilliant enquiry in to the attitude of its perpetrators and supporters is a chilling reminder of what lengths we’ve strayed from the idea of ‘a just battle.’”Melvin A. Goodman, former CIA analyst and writer of National Insecurity:”A comprehensive and shocking study of the dirty consequences of US drone attacks. This important function will be helpful in any re-examination of drone plan.”Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace and autho