Ode To A Drone Analysis

The Meaning of Ode to a Drone

“Hell-raiser, razor-feathered risers, windhover over Peshawar,”(Majmudar Lines 1-3) That was the first stanza of the poem “Ode to a Drone” by Amit Majmudar. This poem is written by a Muslim American who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. The first stanza is the beginning to an ode to a drone, but immediately, you know he is not praising the drone for being powerful, he is explaining how it is unnecessarily destructive. A drone is an unmanned flying vehicle that shoots missiles or drops bombs on targets in modern warfare. Modern warfare today is taking place in the Middle East which is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt. Many terrorist groups such as ISIS, which is the largest threat right now.

It is a fact that he is the son of immigrants who traveled to the United States to have a better life, and I am glad they did because it is more safe here than the Middle East. There are still some minor and major acts of terrorism that still happen in the United States of America, but it is a number far less of the ones taking place in the Middle East. Amit is a citizen of the United States, so that means we protect him as a country, if he was a citizen of Iraq, he could easily be part of the increasing number of 18,802 civilians that have been killed in Iraq in ISIS-linked violence in under two years. “ISIS lacks any sophisticated air defense system or any other way to challenge unmanned air supremacy, dozens of armed drones could enter the air space and fire weaponry but low enough for precision target identification and strike.” (How America’s Drones Can Defeat ISIS by Defense One) This means drones can easily get the job done to shrink down this terrorist state. That easily proves Amit’s biased opinion of drones wrong. I do not think he realizes that drones are useful and used with precision and strategy, we do not use them because we have a “trigger-finger gamer’s thumb.” (Lines