“‘It is a lot like playing a video game,’ a former Predator drone operator matter-of-factly admits. ‘But playing the same video game four years straight on the same level.’ His bombs kill real people though and, he admits, often not the people he is aiming at. What Omer Fast’s film does brilliantly is evoke the weirdness of people in Nevada endlessly trawling foreign countries for ‘bad guys’, whom they then get permission to fire on. A former US air force drone operator admits to making mistakes: ‘You see a lot of death,’ he says before pondering why he carries on – perhaps because if it was not him then it might be some ‘new kid doing it badly’.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/life-us-drone-operator-artist
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