Drone Attacks
No need to airlift the bad guys
to Gitmo, to any foreign dungeon.
Instead, we hit al-Qaida
where they live with missiles
before they hit us. We aim
for flawless, exact precision
to minimize collateral damage
-- and if others are hit, we can say
al-Qaida used human shields.
Innocents? Women and children?
Realistically, such deaths occur
in any war -- nothing we desire,
a consequence of the perilous times
in which we live. Less messy than
Abu Ghraib, acting hidden from public
view in remote regions, the drones make
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