One
wonders if drone pilot Col. D. Scott Brenton listens to Louis Armstrong
in the suburban Air National Guard Base in Syracuse from which he
murders people 7,000 miles away.
“I
see mothers with children, I see fathers with children, I see fathers
with mothers, I see kids playing soccer,” Brenton tells the New York
Times. Drone operators see their intended targets “wake up in the
morning, do their work, go to sleep at night,” explains Dave, another
high-tech murderer who killed from an office cockpit at Nevada’s Creech
Air Force Base and who now trains new recruits to the cyber-killer corps
at New Mexico’s Holloman Air Force Base.
When
instructed to kill someone he has stalked from the air for a prolonged
period, “I feel no emotional attachment to the enemy,” Brenton insists. I
have a duty, and I execute my duty.” When the deed is done, he points
out, nobody “in my immediate environment is aware of anything that has
occurred.”
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