"We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges": The New Face Of War
Submitted on May 29, 2011
By Conn Hallinan - Znet Commentary
The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off America's Public Enemy Number One, it formalized a new kind of warfare, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are secret...It is as if counter-terrorism reconfigured that classic line from the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: "We don't need no stinkin' badges, we got drones and Seals."
