Ted Rall for July 29, 2016

The people who have lost their minds on drones are those who think we can employ them without consequence. Would the young men in your family just roll over and forget about if a number of the family died horrible deaths, not because of any guerrila or terrorist warfare, but because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time? Died by application of flying robotic bomb used by an empire on the other side of the globe employed by a nation of Walmart shoppers and sports watchers who were mostly willfully ignorant of their empire’s policies and decades’-long interference, control, and imposition of phony governments and violence? Eventually, families of the victims, or others radicalized by our bloody touch will bring a message to us on stationary that we might recognize as nuclear or biological in design. Enjoy the next Star Wars movie, but do not presume to think that you are entitled to identify with the rebels.