I am pleased to report that it is currently Labour Day in this state of New South Wales. Long live the long weekend!
So, what, we all just throw our hands up in the air and give up on even *attempting* to identify noncombatants? Everyone in the place we decide to fight is a combatant, sans anyone else's input, kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out? Fuck that with a hedge trimmer and fuck you for downplaying it.
The same way strapping a gun to a remote-control plane makes the warcrime you just denied (journalists are noncombatants, dickhead) happen, that is to say, it is the tool by which it does. Warcrimes were always going to happen in Iraq, thanks to the Coalition generalship's incompetence.
In case you're wondering what my opinion of this is: war crimes are bad.
I WAS QUOTING A DOCUMENTED WAR CRIME. NAMELY THIS ONE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaqY...
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
Mate, who decides what constitutes a "target"? Because it won't be the robot. It'll be the human being saying "Do it, light 'em up, light 'em all up."
Only time I've ever heard of them is in a TISM song. I guess they've still got momentum, though, if they're still around.