The minister's complaint is risible.

Too bad we don't drone our own war criminals.

with negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

I don't know enough about the peace talks that the Minister and Pakistan were engaging in to comment on them or their chance of any success.

can Pakistan remote-control bomb them?

What about the three others killed?

I missed their part of the trial that brought about their death warrant.

Oh, that's right, there wasn't one......

Oh, right. Not a citizen= has no human rights= they are all just towel- head terrorists anyways.

If the NEXT " Legitimate Target" was standing next to YOUR family at the Dairy Queen, would you approve of an immediate strike?

We have ALL been brainwashed into believing that people do not have inherent value, and therefore killing people is just business as usual. Besides, we have enough to worry about in our own lives; its just easier to not care. I'm guilty of it , too.

But I'll NEVER sign off on this cowardly terrorist tactic of bombing suspects from afar. What good is it to kill 1 enemy ( + 3 unknowns) if you create hundreds of new enemies doing it?

Drone Warfare is all about Money; we aren't in enough wars to boost corporate profits, so we need a NEW style of warfare that does not require us to " be at war" with the nation in question. And this new style insures that we NEVER have a shortage of enemies.

Cheer for in discriminant slaughter and eternal war if you want to.


I'll pass......

including entire villages disregarded as merely inconvenient ... states our "just cause" that we need more enemies.

Like the War on Drugs...got to keep the private prisons full. "War on Terror for Those We Deem Non Essential or Have the Audacity to be Opposed to American Empire Snatching Up Their Minerals and Sovereign Wealth", well keeps the troops paid, MIC churning right along, is a cozy little cycle. Got to fund our foreign prisons, get those shiny new military bases surrounded by concrete, more fighter jets that either don't work or we don't need. Ad nauseum.

There is no "good reason" to stop, given the entire "Beltway" has their hands in the deadly, but financially lucrative shitstorm.

Yet, it's the very reason all but the World's Policemen can afford to give their own citizens national health care. Or, jobs when the unfortunate soldiers come home. We can't afford it...too busy inventing the next bomb, missile, drone.

For shame.

And this particular murder at this particular time is incredibly stupid. Many Pakistanis are about to die as a direct consequence.

The Pakistani Taliban's main beef is with the Pakistani government, not us. They didn't really start coming after us until we started killing their leadership. Then, seven CIA officers paid the ultimate price, and then we droned them some more. Then, they tried to blow up Times Square, and then we droned them some more. Do you think this is the end?

It's a bit high-handed of you to dismiss a minister trying to have peace talks in his own country. Far more Pakistanis are at risk than Americans from the violence.

Negotiations with a rebel group can never extend beyond conditions under which it will disarm, and to what level of its membership amnesty can be extended.

It's imperialistic.

in charge, problem solved.

the Pakistani government are a pack of duplicitous, undermining, stab you in the back, lying sacks of crap.