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ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-O77-3
As far as this blog is concerned it goes without saying that the current upsurge in the use of drones for killing, making war as un-involving and casual as a shopping-mall game, is a genuine evil which too few people recognise as such. Medea Benjamin has been on the road introducing her book on the subject, and recently appeared at Bristol Foyles bookshop as part of that city's innovative Festival of Ideas.
Weeks after the 2002 American invasion of Afghanistan, she visited that country. There, on the ground, talking with victims of the strikes, she learned the truth about the “smart bombs” on which U.S. forces claimed to be increasingly reliant. Now, with the use of drones escalating at a pace unthinkable just a few years ago when this was science-fiction, Benjamin has written this highly readable, hard-fact book as a call to action: “It is meant to wake a sleeping public,” she writes, “lulled into thinking that drones are good, that targeted killings are making us safer.”
Medea Benjamin is also a driving force behind Code Pink, which is well worth visiting if you want to know more or better still, be active.
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