Is It Only Called Terror When Someone Does It To Us?

This is just so disturbing:

On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in the middle:

Asked for documentation of Tariq and Waheed’s deaths, Akbar did not provide pictures of the missile strike scene. Virtually none exist, since drones often target people who show up at the scene of an attack.

What made that sentence so amazing was that it basically amounts to a report that the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie.
In a just-released, richly documented report, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, on behalf of the Sunday Times, documents that this is exactly what the U.S. is doing — and worse...

Greenwald goes on to describe in intimate and devestating detail how our US government is guilty of war crimes, right now, in our ongoing drone campaign.  He later laments the fact that current public opinion, even among Liberals, continues to favor drone attacks in spite of the overwhelming opinion against such attacks when undertaken by the Bush campaign.

I can't really add much to Greenwald's analysis, but I'm struck as he is by how alienated from mainstream opinion one is when opposing torture and terror actions by our own government.

Imagine if you can that you are an innocent citizen of the US, minding your own business, when a missile launched by another government lands in your front yard and kills your whole family.  We actually don't have to try very hard to imagine it, as it's not too far away from what happened on 9/11 to us.  We are perpetrating terror attacks via drone that are experienced in exactly the same way by citizens of the countries who are victimized by these actions.  Our only justification is that we're the most powerful country in the world and therefore nobody can stop us.  There's just nothing else there.

President Obama, like President Bush before him, is guilty of War Crimes.  And since nobody in a position of power here is willing to say so, it's going to continue.  Ron Paul is the only person speaking against this to whom anyone is listening.  It's shameful.  In November, I'll be forced to choose between Obama, whom I see as a war criminal, and Romney, whose criticism in these areas is that he's not tough enough.  Awful.