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To me the most worrying part of this article is this part;

> In a Nov. 20 speech in Washington, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said the Pentagon would expand its use of the unmanned attack planes “outside declared combat zones” as it pursues al-Qaeda supporters in Africa and the Middle East.



The military has to keep engaged to justify its existence, and the blowback from this will give it an unending stream of future "customers".


Any idea how the International Criminal Court would view a signatory nation doing such things?




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