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Spending and casualties both have fallen sharply. The Pentagon has spent a total of $10 billion in the 30 months since it went to war against Islamic State in mid-2014, and the militants have killed only five American service members in Iraq and Syria since that time. Coalition forces assem...
Under a new president, elected in 2008 in part on his promise to end American military involvement in Iraq, Washington’s strategy morphed into the more media-palatable mantra of “no boots on the ground.” Instead, backed by aggressive intel and the “surgical” application of drone strikes ...
"Virtually no other country agrees with the U.S.'s claimed authority to secretly declare people enemies of the state and kill them and civilian bystanders far from any recognized battlefield," said Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union. "To date, there has been an abysmal lack ...
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...
Such a shame when American men or men in general, whom are suppose to be manly in all forms, have been pussified by a 0.003 of Jew Mafia (exaggerated joke). Still, it is sad when such a small percentage of a race can slowly gain power and control the world’s wealth in the ways...
[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 ...
Through the drone strike program and double-tap attacks, there is no question that former President Obama and his administration violated international humanitarian law. Obama’s symbolic significance cannot outshine his relationship with the imperial endeavors of the American Empire. ...
We are still at a strange point where the authorization of assassinations of American citizens is happening. In fact, Al-Awlaki's sixteen-year-old son was also killed in the drone strike, so now drone strikes are killing American minors overseas. ...
The American Civil Liberties Union’s leader – even as he cheered plans to close the Guantanamo prison and allow for more oversight on drone strikes – criticized “still insufficient transparency” regarding drones, what he called “unconstitutional military commissions” and the lack of what he’...