this is so amazingly painful

[Tenet Nosce]

They don't see the connection between their tax dollars being used to murder children in Afghanistan with drone weapons, and the slaughter of innocents back home.

Where did you come up with this enlightened certainty about Afghanistan? How much time have you spent there?

US Military Says Killing Afghan Children Is Fair Game

In October, the US launched an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed three children – ages 8, 10, and 12 -while they were gathering firewood (or by some accounts, dung to burn as fuel). NATO issued its usual dismissive statement, admitting it may have “accidentally killed three innocent Afghan civilians.”

“It kind of opens our aperture,” said Army Lt. Col. Marion “Ced” Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. “In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”

Oops... I stand corrected. This one wasn't drone weapons, but rather a manned airstrike.

This is the one specifically about drones. But here they are talking about Pakistan, not Afghanistan.

Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study says

U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed far more people than the United States has acknowledged, have traumatized innocent residents and largely been ineffective, according to a new study released Tuesday.

The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%.

"TBIJ reports that from June 2004 through mid-September 2012, available data indicate that drone strikes killed 2,562 - 3,325 people in Pakistan, of whom 474 - 881 were civilians, including 176 children. TBIJ reports that these strikes also injured an additional 1,228 - 1,362 individuals," according to the Stanford/NYU study.