U.S. drone killings of civilians in Pakistan have WWII precedent
Long before American drones were murdering civilians in Pakistan, American pilots were committing similar war crimes in GermanyIn a 1985 autobiography by the American who was the first pilot to break the sound barrier, the author described how, while serving in the US armed forces during World War II in the autumn of 1944, his fighter group was attacking Germany and "...assigned an area fifty miles by fifty miles and ordered to strafe anything that moved...We weren't asked how we felt zapping people. It was a miserable, dirty mission, but we all took off on time and did it ...
