Afghanistan's carpet makers have long made "war rugs." What's the latest? Drone rugs.
The war rug tradition of Afghanistan has its origins in the decade of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979, and has continued through subsequent military, political and social conflicts. Afghan rug-makers began incorporating the apparatus of war into their designs almost immediately after the Soviet Union invaded their country. They continue to do so today in the wake of the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan which ousted the Taliban government of Mullah Omar but has failed to bring an end to violence in the country. These days, with the ongoing drone war, these have started creeping up.
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I can't imagine a life in a country where these things roam around taking people out, often innocent people.
The drones are often so high people cannot see them with the naked eye. One second, you're standing there, the next, you're not. Trying to wrap my head around the psychological toil this has on people does seem to account for certain degrees of radicalization.
No wonder most of them hate the US.
I read this book several years ago and one of the scariest parts of novel was staying out of sight of the drones....the thing that was scary about the book is that it mixed science fiction and merged them with devices that are already in use....such as drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse