Anger Drone attacks in northwest Pakistan were one grievance for protesters in Karachi last month, at a demonstration called by the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. ReutersFrom The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — In the mountains of northwest Pakistan, the psychological impact of America’s drone strikes can be measured by this: Some locals have given up drinking Lipton tea, out of a growing conviction that the Central Intelligence Agency is using the tea bags as homing beacons for its pilotless planes.
But in Pakistan’s cities there is a different impact: a sense that the gizmos, created to instill fear in America’s enemies, only reveal the fears of Americans to take casualties themselves. There, a song of protest taunts the world’s most powerful country for sending robots to do a man’s job:
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My Comment: Another downside to having robots do the work is that (from the point of the enemy) they work.