{"id":1929,"date":"2014-11-24T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/24\/i-think-the-greatest-problem-is-the-mentality\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:31:34","slug":"i-think-the-greatest-problem-is-the-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/24\/i-think-the-greatest-problem-is-the-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfjc569BKZ1rrwkloo1_400.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfjc569BKZ1rrwkloo1_400.jpg?resize=320%2C444&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"444\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfjc569BKZ1rrwkloo1_400.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfjc569BKZ1rrwkloo1_400.jpg?resize=72%2C100&amp;ssl=1 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the greatest problem is the mentality that accompanies drone strikes,\u201d Philip Alston, an N.Y.U. law professor who investigated drone attacks for the U.N. between 2004 and 2010, told me. \u201cThe identification of a list of targets, and if we can succeed in eliminating that list we will have achieved good things\u2014that mentality is what drives it all: if only we can get enough of these bastards, we\u2019ll win the war.\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/11\/24\/unblinking-stare\">Obama\u2019s Drone War<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A great and disturbing piece on the CIA\u2019s drone war in Pakistan. Timely, also, because Hubbub is making a game about drone warfare at the moment, called <a href=\"https:\/\/bycat.ch\/\">Bycatch<\/a>. The quote above describes the mentality we are exploring in the game quite well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the greatest problem is the mentality that accompanies drone strikes,\u201d Philip Alston, an N.Y.U. law professor who investigated drone attacks for the U.N. between 2004 and 2010, told me. \u201cThe identification of a list of targets, and if we can succeed in eliminating that list we will have achieved good things\u2014that mentality is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/24\/i-think-the-greatest-problem-is-the-mentality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[911,910,909],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-bycatch","tag-drone-warfare","tag-drones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}