{"id":50179,"date":"2015-04-27T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/some-drone-victims-are-more-equal-than-others.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:25:39","slug":"some-drone-victims-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/some-drone-victims-are-more-equal-than-others.html","title":{"rendered":"Some drone victims are more equal than others"},"content":{"rendered":"

The politicians and pundits wringing their hands over the drone strike death of an Italian and an American hostage are intentionally ignoring the fact that we know<\/i> drone strikes have killed innocent bystanders before, but the citizenry of the United States (at least) doesn't seem to much care when it's Them, only when it's Us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhy It Took the Killing of Two Westerners to Raise Concern About Drone Strikes<\/a><\/span>
\nAmerica’s leaders are morally incoherent on the subject of targeted killing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The politicians and pundits wringing their hands over the drone strike death of an Italian and an American hostage are intentionally ignoring the fact that we know drone strikes have killed innocent bystanders before, but the citizenry of the United States (at least) doesn't seem to much care when it's Them, only when it's Us. … Continue reading “Some drone victims are more equal than others”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17,349,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-military","category-nationalism-exceptionalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/some-remarkable-drone-photography.html","url_meta":{"origin":50179,"position":0},"title":"Some remarkable drone photography","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-May-15 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some remarkable photographs in Europe taken by Amos Chapple before governments started cracking down on commercial drone photography in many locations. 37 incredible drone photos from across the globe that would be totally illegal today Drones are everywhere from the battlefield to... 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