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Drone Strikes, DARPA, and Annie Jacobson's Book

from Episode 152 - Feral · #152

4 min

Tim describes watching drone strike footage with Ben, argues that terror threats like ISIS are wildly exaggerated compared to the technological horror the US wields, and talks about Annie Jacobson's DARPA book and how politicians perform authenticity before capitulating to intelligence agency fearmongering.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tim on the patriotic appeal of watching drone strikes kill probably innocent children.
  • ISIS was never a threat; these people in caves are an improv team we fund and make ourselves.
  • Watching drone strikes makes it hard to take any politician seriously talking about ISIS.
  • Obama's campaign pretense of limiting Iraq intervention versus his quiet drone striking once in office.
  • The CIA presents unactionable intelligence to terrify presidents into authorizing whatever they want.
  • Politicians now fill in blanks for what they know audiences want to hear, then do what intelligence agencies tell them to do once elected.
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ISISBarack ObamaCIADonald TrumpBill HicksEllen DeGeneresJack Palance

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