The DOD and their corporate "handlers" know that the key to enduring war in spite of the ever-growing dissent among the citizenry of the empires that wage it, is to remove humans from direct engagement. Remove the threat of physical harm to the aggressor, keep touting the "fear" and "national security" propaganda, while simultaneously excusing the "manifest destiny" of our resource-hoarding sloth and greed, and those malicious forces hiding behind the pretense of democratic justice will eternally prevail.

Here is an important component to that end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9unOV2wmYo&feature=player_profilepage

I thought it would be interesting to post this story as viewed from an AlJazeera perspective. The closing line in the report is illustrative of our lack, here in the "aggressor" nations, of recognizing the "routine" stress of those "innocent by-standers" whose lives we disrupt, often permanently, while pursuing the "phantoms" we call Al Quaeda and the Taliban. Ghosts that we claim are hiding in plain sight among the general populations who consequently, and inevitably, become collateral damage to the un-manned aerial drones, operated remotely, from thousands of miles away in Utah by otherwise peace-loving Christian-Judea law-abiding citizens of the US-of-A. In such ways can we otherwise relax in the pious knowledge that our lives are safe and secure from the Muslim barbarism that threatens our own selfish and imperial way of life.

Fat chance, buckos. If there is true justice in the world, I fear that we, in the "West" are on the wrong side of that future historical account. You know, the kind of history that is taking place, as I write this, as you read this, in North Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and even in Wisconsin.

Where real and universal notions of democratic equality, are seeking footholds among the tyrannys that charade as righteousness, in the form of trans-national corporate sponsorship, gone insane over profits from oil and banking, and absolute power over everything else we need.

Even to the sustenance of life itself...