First things first. Obama is completely cool with the U.S. government killing its own citizens without the hassle of charging them with a crime or providing a trial, because it’s safer for the nation to simply have someone killed because theymightdo bad things in the future, which in fai...
President Obama on Thursday took responsibility for the killingof an American and Italian...Hughes, Brian
After the American drone strike and Iran’s measured retaliation, some State vets worry that Trump is a wild card, the biggest danger: “From a political standpoint,” says one, “they have behaved a hell of a lot more rationally and predictably than we have.” By Abigail Tracy January 8...
[125] Obama has escalated the war, and expanded it into Pakistani border regions, relying increasingly on drone attacks (see point 2.4 below). The number of American troops killed in Afghanistan during the first 18 months of Obama’s presidency surpassed the toll taken by seven years of war ...
Drone strikes are a method of war, but they’ve become the American strategy. The strategy, so it seems, is to keep killing bad guys until the rest give up and go home. But the deaths of innocents, whether 100 or 1000, serve to perpetuate cycles of violence and revenge. ...
In one important way, Obama has made good on his pledge to extract America from war and make Americans safer: The number of U.S. troop casualties under Obama is significantly below the tally under Bush. During the Bush administration, the Iraq War alone cost 4,229 American lives; the Afgh...
The White House recently disclosed that the two hostages -- one American and one Italian -- were killed in January by an
One described exception would allow U.S. authorities to disable an adversary's air defense system during a tactical drone strike, for instance. But, on the most part, the administration's review would focus on what "constitutes reasonable and proportional force" to preventing or striking back ag...
American jets hit targets in Syria on Tuesday in the US-led fight against Islamic State. Although the US has not declared war since 1942, this is the seventh country that Barack Obama, the holder of the Nobel Peace Prize, has bombed in as many years.
The American public is split on where and how drones should be used, according to a March poll by Gallup. Although 65% of respondents said drones should be used against suspected terrorists abroad, only 41% said