we thought of him as a bad leader one we couldn't control now he looked like he might be about to carry out all human rights atrocity so we decided it was time to participate in an operation to overthrow gadhafi and in that operation of course he was killed. so we succeeded in the short term goal get rid of gadhafi and deposed that government but then what happened we didn't have a plan for what was going to come next we thought that maybe by magic some new peaceful regime would encourage everybody would cooperate and things songs together .

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the. we believe that we are an exceptional nation this is a phrase you hear a lot in the united states we call it american exceptionalism it means that we have a responsibility for the whole world and we need to make rules for the rest of the

world because without us there will be chaos. and. my name is dr king on whose side and i am a white political scientist. in one thousand nine hundred three my country was invaded by the united states and we've been under an illegal and prolonged occupation ever since i've dedicated my life to not only finding out why the united states invaded my country but also how to bring the occupation to end it. all why it was a long term american project it began with religious missionaries they left from boston in the eighteen twenty six to go to hawaii and live there to spend the rest

of their lives civilizing the poor savages and barbarians as we saw them who lived in the white. world. this is the only policy on the back row. this was the executive monarchs building. by eighty ninety three was already a constitutional monarchy so it had three separate branches of government big. second if which was here legislative and judicial which is across the street. the leader of these white awad actually came to washington to win

permission from the president of the united states to overthrow the government of the kingdom of hawaii he received that permission he went home he organized a coup in which the hawaiian kingdom was overthrown american marines were quickly landed just secured the new white government and a few years later a white became part of the united states. so this is the place that u.s. marines landed this road here is where they marched from honolulu harbor and they occupied this location right here when they invaded my country the honking the. so we're at right now this is where camp smith this is headquarters for the pacific command and it overlooks pearl harbor and pro harbor is

a naval base for the united states so it falls under the command structure of the pacific command. and what you was taken by the united states were invaded in order for the united states to control pearl harbor because of hawaii's location in central central in the central pacific so there's a central location that ships. enter point ports after disarming refurbish. ports rearm and go back fighting. he's a little bit of world who was asian and in peace why mighty greedy so it was by this privilege that they were present all the things it was happy it was easy to

be easy nine eleven and one third so what we see rising up out of that is because people are these. monsters that are injury. document of an existing. document each should basically say we're right this book we are worthy of notable truth and you see so it's all still up again and piracy from the newspapers that received been. cut. that we've developed an unusual. view of the world because of our location we have huge oceans and a couple of week neighbors in mexico and canada therefore we've never had to have a foreign policy of clear cooperation with others we've been able because of our power to impose our will on others.

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the world and their population we just talked about how many guests n.e.i. two hours and in traffic we're all americans are willing to die was. but yours. we are the evidence. that the nationalisation where the evidence of the war crime we're not the war crimes ourselves. already is an independent country all that was overthrown in eighty ninety three was our government by the united states not our country so our country is still an independent state but we're not a control of our independence we're occupying.

this book overthrow is in attempt to show the times that america overthrew foreign governments over a long period. the united states at least in a relative sense is declining in power in the world and we can still remain and i believe will still remain a potent dominant force in the world and we need to accept that the conditions of the past decades don't exist anymore and we're not used to this we're not ready for this psychologically americans have always been on top we think of ourselves as always getting our way and we're entering into a period when that's not going to be so easy the challenge is can we adapt our

habits of dominance to a more equal multi-polar or. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go

round of lives only the one percent of. the time doing all middle of the room sick. to mean relieve relief work. i can tell you i have killed thirteen people with missile strikes and there are one thousand six hundred and twenty six unnamed enemies that were killed in all the missions that i completed and i know that i know that for a fact and i know each of these persons was a human being they had a family they had friends they had lives and we ended them the possibilities are endless. was.

the u.s. senate confirms gina hospital as the new head of the cia despite widespread concerns about her role in the torture of terrorist suspects. who actually have a good relationship it's still really up to me to consumers so they go. and he'll get protections that will be very strong donald trump urges north korea to strike a deal with the u.s. to pyongyang threatens to counsel asylum it. and europe as a legal action to protect firms from u.s. sanctions in a bid to save the iran nuclear deal. of the war and those stories go to our com up next here on r.t. international a former u.s.

air force drone operator turned whistleblower is the guest on sophie and. welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze the u.s. military is relying more and more on drone warfare look at this modern weaponry doing more harm than good brendan right into a forward grown operator in the u.s. military is with me today to share his experience. modern warfare can be found in mountain passes down near urban streets but their craft firing missiles over afghanistan can now be guided remotely from a base in nevada you know darkroom by computer screens or by a pilot in the skies what plays in the mind of a drawer operator before he hits the button is it easier to fly to the enemy

thousands of miles away instead of face to face should those who engage in war be distanced from its dangers and consequences. brendon bryant who served in the u.s. air force as a drone operator welcome to our show it's really great to have you with us brenda hi. hey thank you for having me right out both obama and trump haven't raced drone warfare with strikes in somalia and yemen tripling in trump's first year in office but this is ration in this country as a catalyst and a prime example never seems to improve can drones really change the course of a contain. no drones definitely cannot change the course of anything especially if they're being misused as a tool and that's simply all that they are and if we take away our ability to interact as human beings with one another we're never going to solve this crisis

now during your time in the here us air force strongs were tested as a new form of warfare now even islamic state have been using them in iraq in syria to devastating effect to drones have the potential to be asked commonplace as war planes and helicopters and will everyone embrace them at some point. as this technology gets easier to manufacture you're going to see a lot more people utilizing it you can go to best buy in america and buy a quad copter drone for less than a thousand dollars and you can watch you tube videos of people putting stuff on these drones to make them even deadlier so you know it really just takes a more moral and righteous and virtuous person to utilize this technology technology properly but obviously what we've been seeing is that none of these people who are using these things in warfare understand what virtues or morals

actually are are we going to have like a drone on drone combat from now on is this how we're going to look like in the future. well if you look at what's happening with japan and china there are to utilize in this technology to fight over resources in the ocean so it's not unheard of that we're going to have cowards fighting cowards behind a computer screens now the biggest plus for using drones is that it saves american lives now what is put in the firing line so how can the technology be bad i mean your side suffers no losses. that's actually the thing about warfare that people need to understand is that there is a price to pay when going to war and if we take the human component out of it then there's no actual price and then we just continue to have. the cycle it's an endless endless cycle and there needs to be men and women who train with

honor and integrity who are willing to go on to the battlefield and interact with humans because that's actually how battles are prevented usually we had people posturing one another back in world war two people didn't fire to kill one another only twenty percent people did today in today's conflict we have a ninety five percent fire and kill rate and we wonder why we have people with psychological the mental problems that are coming back from home or from war to home and killing themselves so this is just going to make it even worse now here i have described the use of drones as a cowardly action i kept of you just in warfare rest as honorable you can hardly describe homemade to i tax or children being recruited to carry them out on or a wall right one ship back drones knowing your enemy what resorts to anything damage or kill your soldiers. just because our enemy does something dishonorable

doesn't mean that we need to continue being dishonorable ourselves this is actually why codes of conduct and codes of honor were required for warriors back in ancient days it wasn't so our enemies could know what exactly what we were doing but so that we had a structure and boundaries in what we were going to do his wars aren't fought against one another they're fought for the people and if you can set an example for the people as being the better and noble or and more honorable person people are going to side with you and then the enemy will lose their power and that's really what it comes down to you take away their ability to recruit give the people who are suffering under these conflicts the ability to recover to feel safe that's the aim to win this war say not career and weapons to kill one another yet but the point is there always been wars and there will be wars and there's nothing we can do about it really so as winning a war less important than that saddam you know that is a that is

a poor poor excuse that is a poor poor whore excuse look at our look at the leadership that we have today trump is a idiot and every single person of his administration be it's and all they ever do is just sit there and posture and saying that we need to go to war and we need to go to war obama did the same. and we need people who are actual decent human beings saying enough is enough we have the ability to stop this we are conscious living human beings we're not animals we need to stop acting like animals and actually be human with one another i salute you on that statement and i wish you ran for president one day. i want to go back to how you become a drone operator i'm just interested in a whole process what's the process for becoming one what kind of people just us for all attract or our soldier. just told they're being transferred. well when i was in

the service i was just transferred because of my aptitude scores. then our days there well let's just take a look at the people that i i worked with many of them were the lowest common denominator. when the u.s. military needed people to fill these positions they just asked a bunch of different careers to send us people and so the other careers sent us the kremlin mediocrity if you will the worst of the worst people who were rejected from other career fields because they couldn't function in leadership positions pilots were moved into drones because they were medically unfit to fly their aircraft they either couldn't fail they couldn't be aircraft commanders or squadron leaders so they were shoved into the program there were very few people that actually volunteered to be in this program that were of any actual worth as human beings so this type of society i guess within the military culture is sick and

degraded and. you know they're actually looked down upon by. aircraft people who actually fly aircraft because we're flying remotely they get away or flight suits it's a mess the whole thing's a mess what is and people in there to fill positions because they don't need qualified it's like three months now it's like. just hot just to cayle or are they supposed to be able to tell one to pull the trigger and one just a stealth. no ok so we're we're told we're told that you know we get the time to look at our target and to make the discernment of whether we get to kill him or not but the reality is that if you refuse to pull the trigger they're just going to take someone out of the seat and put someone in the seat that's going to pull it for them anyway and how the training works is you for flying over the never out of desert and we're looking at rocks and then they're saying hey we're going to

pretend this rock over here is an enemy shining your laser at this enemy ok three two one rifle sixteen seconds time flight alright missile splashes enemy is killed you just won the war on terror let's pack up and go home it's just a bunch of imagination that doesn't actually accomplish anything other than to teach people basic toddler skills of hand eye coordination now i were at that the operator schedules are pretty tough on that most of time like you just spend hours looking at nothing now what's the messed up sleep cycles and boredom how sharp are the operators when the time actually comes to make a crucial decision. this is kind of where the people that i used to work with are pissed off at me because they expose the mental difficulties that we were having you know we flew in my squadron eleven and a half hour days because we couldn't fly longer than the required crew rest according to air force right.