Obama's Drone Blitz: They Seek Them Here, They Bomb Them There ...

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Obama's Drone Blitz:
They Seek Them Here, They Bomb Them There ...

By Brian Cloughley

"They seek him here, they seek him there,
Those drones they seek him everywhere.
Bin Laden struck? - Or maybe missed?
That damned, elusive terrorist."
-- With apologies to Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1903

May 23, 2010 "SC" -- Let us imagine that Spain invaded Mexico in similar fashion to the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 because Madrid suffered a terrorist atrocity that was planned by a Saudi Arabian fanatic living in Chihuahua.

Spanish troops poured into the country, and Spanish generals and mercenaries were to all intents running the place although generously subsidizing a corrupt national government whose president was in power through gross electoral fraud.

A militant resistance movement developed and a lucrative drug industry prospered mightily. There was much illegal movement of criminals and insurgents across the US-Mexico border.

And Spain, objecting to transit of militant Mexicans fighting against Spanish occupation of their country, obtained information that some guerrilla fighters might - might - be in a house in the little town of Van Horn in Culbertson County, Texas.

So one morning a video game player in Madrid pressed a button and a Spanish drone roaming round in US airspace fired missiles on Van Horn that killed two Mexican militants as well as a dozen US citizens, including two women and three children who were minding their own innocent business in their house on Hackberry Street.

What do you think Washington's reaction would be to that incident?

Do you imagine for an instant that there would be other than raging fury? - Of course there would - to the extent that Madrid would be a smoking (and probably radioactive) ruin by sundown.

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