Sunday 17 June 2012

New Weaponry Fuels US Wars

This article is by a cheerleader for the drone-firing Peace Laureate(cough). But at least the piece acknolwedges hostility to US foreign policy outside the US. Such articles usually don't even do that much.
A Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad found that in 17 of 21 countries surveyed, more than half of the people disapproved of U.S. drone attacks targeting extremist leaders in such places as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. In the U.S., 62 percent approved of the drone campaign, making American public opinion the clear exception.The U.S. use of cyberweapons, like viruses that sabotage computer networks or other high-tech tools that can invade computers and steal data, is even more closely shielded by official secrecy and, arguably, less well understood. MORE

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