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Friday, February 15, 2008 12:00 AM

Killing "Bubba" from the skies

Inside a secret high-tech control center the U.S. Air Force targets enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But can they bomb them legally, and without killing innocents? A Salon exclusive.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Friday, February 15, 2008 07:17 AM

    Mere irony, or a deeper truth?

    As a Northerner (South Dakota) I thought the term Bubba was Southern slang meaning brother. So seeing it applied to an enemy combatant was startling.

    Is the Air Force still racially and regionally balanced with regard to its personnel, or has it also slid into a definitely Southern majority?

    Did the term Bubba arise from some Southerner who remembered the chanted cant of his Xtian indoctrination "all men are brothers, love one another" and decided that it should apply to even his Islamist enemies?

    —lesls1 Read lesls1's other letters

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