Atrios asks a question about the U.S. military’s planned expansion of drone use in Niger that is so sensible, it probably hasn’t occurred to most of the warmongers in our government and our pundit class:

There’s this weird country on the other side of the world that flies killing machines over your city on a regular basis. Does no one consider how one might grow up in that environment?

When Nigeriens start to hate the United States as much as people in certain other countries, we will not get to act surprised or perplexed.

Photo credit: By U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian FergusonMarsRover at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.