I read with disgust the article “How Wichitans fight in combat from here” (Feb. 19 Eagle). The whole article makes a hero out of a woman who sits in a nice safe room and kills people she never met in person thousands of miles away.
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We are talking about a fight in someone else’s country where people have lost their nation, sovereignty and national pride. Some of those combatants are not just Taliban. Some people there have joined in the Taliban’s fight because they want the foreigners to leave.
That especially goes for the many factions of resistance in Iraq and other parts of the world where this country feels free to impose our standards on them against their will. We impose democratic puppet regimes that ignore these people’s own dynamic interest, culture and national needs.
I can’t understand how a country that claims to be for “freedom and democracy” and a “beacon of hope in the world” can rely on technology that makes a button-pushing soldier judge, jury and executioner.
I’m not alone in this complaint. A lot of people in Wichita are concerned about the use of unmanned drones to kill people. We will be showing the documentary “National Bird” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 3, at the Peace and Social Justice Center, 1407 N. Topeka. Anyone interested is welcome to come.
STEVE OTTO, MAIZE
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