Greenwald's over-heated rhetoric reminds of Assange rushing from a staff meeting about his disdain of practicality while claiming melodramatically he has "two wars to fight." Greenwald has zero comprehension of the machinery, tactics, logistics, manpower, funding of large-scale warmaking. And only a bit of the "laws of war." Instead, he maneuvers media quotations in battle array, tabletop war gaming like think tank epicenes -- like litigators facilely fuming for the jury. Drones have become the new encryption fad wherein coders, bloggers and journalists believe themselves empowered to engage in global political struggles with mastery of coding combat and rhetorical war fighting about toy aircraft while the mass killing devices are ignored hovering over the little planes, protecting their airspace. Recall the delirium when it was bruited that encryption was a munitons right up there with ICBMs, aircraft carriers, B52s and Abrams tanks. Recall Tor as a valiant tool to liberate communications for freedom fighter though meticulously surveilled and protected by full spectrum dominance of US military might. Drones are being treated like the toys of Bob the Builder, simulacra of horrific slaughtering machines, but at a scale an armchair warrior can believe in just like the arm-chaired drone operators, and, coders breaking Big Balls a the desktop, or more recently, Anonymous and Lulzsec panicking the giant corporations -- or so the rhetoricians exult. Fine, let them playact being adults "fighting wars" while killing and maiming by means beyond their control continue to expand their mass targetings and consume even greater portions of the world's economy. Corresponding to the rise in militarism is the avid participation in futile opposition by those with no direct experience in brutal warfare but rely upon quoting each other's baseless rhetoric of opposition to seduce readers and fans just like them who play war games in media, on consoles, in code and in complicit cowardice to take no physical action against warmakers amply protected by freedom of expression. Lawful they always remain caged by ineffective taunts and rhetorical braggardy. Formulaic for writers, algorithmic for security coders. Hands always out for the king's coin.