Most Americans Are OK With Drone Strikes, Rest of the World Mostly Unconvinced - Hit & Run : Reason.com
But the rest of the world is not. Surprising?
The success rate of killing high level terrorist targets with drone strikes? 2% ... 2%!!
Pakistan could shoot down the drones? And risk going to a declared war with us? We'd LOVE for Pakistan to do that. Then we would have the excuse we need to invade yet another country.
Why do you think terrorists target us in the first place? Our freedom? Or our constant meddling and regime tampering in their countries?
"Seventy-four percent of Pakistanis polled view the United States as an enemy. Turns out having a bombs dropped on your country and having fellow countryman killed by unmanned aircraft doesn’t help endear you to the United States."
"Furthermore, evidence suggests that US strikes have facilitated recruitment to violent non-state armed groups, and motivated further violent attacks."
You can't stop 4 guys planning in a basement in New York to blow you up by bombing a country thousands of miles away. Especially when you are killing more civilians than you are terrorists, and thus perpetuating more terrorists by creating more people that hate us.
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"In Pakistan, where statistics are clearest (though still quite murky, remember, the whole thing is technically a secret), there were about 46 drone strikes in Pakistan from 2004 until the end of the George W. Bush’s presidency. Since then, there have been about 288, likely killing more than 2,000 people. (Numbers from the New America Foundation, which undercounts civilian casualties). Most victims of drone strikes are identified as “militants” by the U.S. government. What’s a militant? A Muslim male of military age, according to the definition the government uses. The government, led by a president who “cares,” even targets rescuers and funerals, under the doctrine that anyone who would come to the aid of or to mourn a militant must be a militant too (you’re either with us or against us). Under Obama’s auspices, this drone war has extended from Pakistan to include Yemen and Somalia."