At his always interesting War in Context website, Paul Woodward posted this comment in full (above various articles on the escalating drone war in Yemen). Ill write more about this next week, but Im always amazed that the learning curve in Washington is so nonexistent. It couldnt be clearer that such wars, however successful, only create more enemies than they kill. They generate movements. They aid and abet terrorism. Tom Whenever President Obama orders summary executions through drone strikes, the easiest way of knowing that the CIA doesn’t actually know who was killed is that the dead all carry the same name: militants. In the latest wave of attacks, 55 militants are said to have been killed. It would probably be much more accurate to report that approximately 55 people were killed, few if any of their names are known and they are suspected to have been members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Rather than calling these targeted killings, they should probably be seen as speculative murders — the act of terminating someone’s life when the U.S. government has the suspicion that person might pose an unspecified threat in the future. warincontext.org/2014/04/22/how-american-drone-strikes-are-devastating-yemen/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:36:09 +0000
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