Oh sure, I don't mean to validate the dehumanizing language of the military, it's just how I wrote it. At least I didn't refer to these things as being instruments of kinetic operations.

Not that the machines care much about that, though.

Neither does the government, these days.

'To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined "militant" to mean "all military-age males in a strike zone"'

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/

This thread reminded me of one of my favourite skits from Mitchell & Webb, Needlessly Ambiguous Terms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY

Wow, I didn't know about that. That's ridiculous. I remember watching this comedy bit from Chris Rock about the end of the 'innocent bystander', and I never thought it would actually happen one day.

No female militants?

Of course there is, why else.Obama would explode the 67 year old grandma with a direct hit while she was at.home with her grandchildren while enjoying her flower garden? ( and yes, this actually happened )

Why indeed, Mrs. Sartre?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/imxb8IShtoc/hqdefault.jpg