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https://theintercept.com/drone-papers

Lt. Gen. Flynn... charges that the White House relies heavily on drone strikes for reasons of expediency, rather than effectiveness. "We've tended to say, drop another bomb via drone and put out a headline that 'we killed Abu Bag of Doughnuts' and it makes us all feel good for 24 hours," Flynn said. "And you know what? It doesn't matter. It just made them a martyr, it just created a new reason to fight us even harder."
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Interesting reading that got me thinking about all the outrage a few years ago regarding Guantanamo Bay and detainee torture, so I googled some stats.

Estimates of total killed by Drones 3,492 to 5,545 - the vast majority of which were under the current Administration:
Pakistan: (04 to 15) 2,476 to 3,989
Yemen: (02 to 15) 492 to 725
Somalia (07 to 15) 25 to 108
Afghanistan 499 to 723

Total detainees listed in the US Senate Committee's Torture report: 119

We sure have evolved in our thinking on how we keep America safe.
 
The whole idea of justified drone strikes is one big fallacy. The vast majority of these people are in no way an immediate threat to the US and it also would be far from impossible to capture them. This is just expedience - cast a wide net and maybe you'll kill somebody important
 
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Lack of reaction on here is telling. Doubt it will make much of an impact in the national consciousness either.

We're talking about a situation where 90% of the people who were killed were not targeted. And we gloss this by labeling most of them "enemies killed in action" when in reality we have no idea who they are. Sickening
 
MysteryMen said:
Lack of reaction on here is telling. Doubt it will make much of an impact in the national consciousness either.

We're talking about a situation where 90% of the people who were killed were not targeted. And we gloss this by labeling most of them "enemies killed in action" when in reality we have no idea who they are. Sickening
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Yeah it's gross. Thought "Manhunting in the Hindu Kush" was an excellent piece and it really shows the rank stupidity of the actions. We have no clue who we're targeting or how trustworthy our partners are, we get ourselves dragged into stupid interpersonal squabbles, kill a guy with friends, and end up using our war machine to target people who are essentially street thugs who had no broad agenda against us.
 
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