Obama finally apologizes for murder by drone strike... since it was an American

[abaris]

The flawed assumption in many of the above posts is that every target we bomb is a terrorist, and the civilian casualties are just "collateral damage" (That has a nice ring to, doesn't it?).

Yes, it dehumanizes, which is the whole purpose. Collateral has no face and no blood. That's the one and only lesson the fuckers took home from Vietnam. People don't like to be associated with the ugly sides of war and so they simply created some Orwellian terms to cover the shit so Joe Ordinary can sip his beer in peace.