Dronesplain, Verb: Whose 4-Year-Old Gets Killed? ***graphic pic***

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/12/24-1

Dronesplain, Verb: Whose 4-Year-Old Gets Killed?
by Abby Zimet
12.24.13 - 12:46 PM



Amidst the ongoing uproar over the latest disaster wrought by U.S. drones - the Yemen wedding party and the surreal gift of weapons to the families of its victims - a young journalist and son of Afghan refugees is creating a website to list the thousands of innocent victims and thus "give them a voice." Likewise moved, artist Katie Miranda has created the graphic novel "Tear Gas In The Morning" and graphic testimony to the insane things pundits actually say in the form of "dronesplain" - the act of "condescendingly excusing or justifying drone strikes on impoverished areas of the 3rd world (usually followed by an abdication of responsibility for civilian deaths and/or the gift of blood money or weapons to the victims' family."

"The bottom line in the end is - whose four-year-old gets killed? What we're doing is limiting the possibility that four-year-olds here will get killed by indiscriminate acts of terror." - Joe Klein, Time Magazine columnist.