INEFFECTIVE US DRONE ATTACKS: KILL INNOCENTS AND GENERATE TERRORISM

We don't have to be avid news hawks to be aware that many Moslems have been "radicalized".  Some have abandoned or ignored the humane and peaceful teachings of their ancient faith--Islam emphasizes peaceful and harmonious relations between individuals and groups. These "radicalized" individuals are so filled with hate that they ignore the underpinning of their faith and will purposely  ram vehicles into crowds with the intention of harming or killing other human beings. Some go on rampages of death armed to the teeth with exploding vests or Ak47s , or as in the recent London tragedy, with plastic knives strapped to their wrists with which they slashed and stabbed the innocent victims into which they had just crashed their vehicle and others near by.  What would motivate normal, sane human beings into such actions?

A good part of their motivation comes from the awful, unjustified indiscriminate violence inflicted by our "wars of choice" and attempts at "regime change" in states populated with their co-religionists----often men, women and children-- around the world. Yes, there is an equivalence. We brutally and violently kill innocents with our Hellfire missiles, 500 pound bombs and attack drones and they kill innocents commandeering commercial airplanes, trucks, suicide vests, and butcher knives to respond in (less effective but no less violent) kind.

As in foreign affairs and Newtonian physics (Newton's Third Law) "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".  When we act violently there are violent consequences.

That brings us to the most recent atrocity  visited upon Moslems--the recent US violence in Syria, by a Pentagon or CIA drone attack.  Why are we killing innocents in Syria's confusing civil war remains a mystery to the American public.  We were not invited by the legitimate government in Damascus and are there illegally without congressional approval as simply well armed invaders.

At about 7 PM on March 16, 2017 two drones were heard hovering overhead by locals.  They assumed these were  Syrian government or Russians photographing the contested area of Idlib Province where the village is located.   But as the people prepared for a a meeting of visiting religious leaders and evening services in the packed mosque a salvo of Hellfire missiles slammed into the front part of the  mosque, where the teachers and leaders were preaching. The bombs collapsed that part of the building killing many and trapping others in the rubble.  As the dust began to settle, and the groans and screams of victims began, survivors ran in terror toward  the closed doors on the still-standing rear portion of the mosque.  Then, as they tried to escape, the same drones hovering overhead  fired off a second round of Hellfire munitions and dropped a 500 pound bomb.  There were many deaths and casualties.  The British newspaper Daily Mail claimed there were 42 deaths with many women and children among the victims.  The US press, reported  only 38 dead with again many women and children among the dead.

The Pentagon and US Defense Department which at first denied it had any drones in the area eventually claimed that it had indeed "legally" hit a "gathering of terrorists", killed many "high level" individuals.  They did not name or identify these individuals.  To the Pentagon the dead were all "terrorists" if they were adults and male...regardless of their actual identity.

The Pentagon had no personnel on the ground to report what they had achieved.  But locals reported the act of horror and the carnage.  Hospitals were overwhelmed in the small village and had to send injured to surrounding villages.  Doctors reported the deaths and dismemberments they had witnessed.  Then journalists and UN investigators went to the scene to photograph the collapsed mosque, the bloodstains and other evidences. Among the wreckage they observed and photographed fragments of munitions with US manufacturers logos and numbers identifying them as USA made.

After these reports the Pentagon was forced to make an "investigation" of its own.  They finally admitted they had conducted the attack---on a mosque--. They claimed it was a gathering of "terrorists" not a gathering of religious leaders as the locals had claimed.  They admitted the killing of many "high level" individual and ---one civilian..  This civilians was of small stature and could have been a child.

This is how to create more terrorists.