Received my copy of Singer’s Wired For War yesterday afternoon. Must start it soon.
‘The Soldiers Call It War Porn’
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Which consequences does the drone war have for the nations that lead them?
Singer: War used to be a very serious decision. Now we don’t even declare war anymore. We don’t pay war taxes, we don’t buy war bonds. Now we can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm’s way. It also changes the way politicians think about war. You already have society’s barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground.