America's drone policy is racist

Suppose a CIA informant has this girl he is going out with. Then this guy from the next village also bonks the girl and the informant finds out. Of course he won't be happy.

Most human beings will seek ways to avenge such slights of their honour. These include

1. Shouting and screaming at the rival.
2. Looking for a suitable weapon to inflict bodily harm on the rival
3. Go tell big brother to deal with the rival.

In the past 'big brother' could only be some stocky guy, or a can of acid. Nowadays big brother can have drones. Mind you big brother doesn't even need to know the root motive of why he is being asked to use his drones. He can simply be told what is needed to get him to go along with the plan.

The aggrieved guy now has the option to tell that so and so from the next village is the worst of the bad Taliban - send him a Hellfire.

Will the CIA be any wiser to the real motive. Chances are that they won't even have a clue. Firstly the did not grow up within the culture hence they won't be able to pick up the tell tale signs of a jealous infused individual.

Mind you we are talking about a society where people kill and maim for honour, just like that. Women are routinely maimed with acid and some are shot for merely going to school.

Secondly there is no record of interactions, like a folder of salacious draft messages, that keeps growing with messages that never get send. That is how David Petraeus used to communicate with his lover. Most interactions are verbal and are literally speaking - gone with the wind.

Eventually the casual intimate liaison of the then CIA director ended up sending threatening messages to a perceived rival. Imagine if she could have got away with sending a Hellfire armed Reaper. Informants in remote areas, whose information is difficult if not impossible to verify, can get away with sending Hellfires to love rivals as we speak right now.

In the Petraeus case there is a trail of salacious emails to give us an insight into what happened. Out in the field, there is no luxury of such records to reveal the details of motives.

America just finds itself with more and more people hating them.

In my opinion, America's drone policy is simply criminal. According to a recent NBC report (http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/05/18781930-exclusive-cia-didnt-always-know-who-it-was-killing-in-drone-strikes-classified-documents-show?) they admit to not knowing a quarter of who they are killing. Their claims to know the other three quarters are also tenuous.

America's drone policy is no different from bombing an entire Bronx apartment building simply because a drug dealer is living there. Of course they would never attempt that in the the Bronx.

The only reason they do it elsewhere is because they consider the lives of us third world people to be cheap and useless. So if they kill ten of us in the hope of getting maybe one person they want, it doesn't matter to them. We are nothing but useless collateral damage.

This is exactly the same mentality that has been the driving force behind slavery and colonialism for centuries. The mentality that the lives of other races are cheap and expendable in the quest to improve the lot of the 'chosen race'. This mentality is the foundation upon which racism is built.

Even though America's president is black, America's drone policy is racist. It treats the lives of non-Westerners as cheap and expendable.

I am willing to bet my bottom dollar, that they will never ever replicate the policy in regions with significant white populations. If Ayman al Zawahiri were to go and hide in a Swiss hamlet, a Welsh borough or a French villa, they would never drone bomb it. However if he were to hide in a Thai muban, chances are they would drone bomb it.

I am not justifying the actions and philosophy of the cave dwelling fundamentalists who would like to see every woman in the world covered from head to toe.

All I am pointing out, is that two wrongs do not make a right.