“It is a hard fact that US strikes have resulted in civilian casualties, a risk that exists in all wars,” said Obama. “For the families of those civilians, no words or legal construct can justify their loss. For me, and those in my chain of command, these deaths will haunt us as...
Drone Strike on Seminary Safe Haven Reignites Debate; Obama Promised Efforts to Limit Civilian Casualties
But in those same remarks he added that “it is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties” and that those deaths “will haunt us as long as we live”. While those deaths may haunt the President and those in military and intelligence communities both here and ...
a critical examination of the factual evidence concerning civilian casualties ." that holds out the chance of creating, for the first time, an internationally established standard for the number of noncombatants who have died in drone strikes and commando raids, the subject of fierce dispute and ...
Drones kept U.S. soldiers out of harm’s way and they were, arguably, more humane than other weapons because they could help find and kill specific individuals and limit civilian casualties. At least in public, Obama wrestled with his growing reliance on drones and his use of them to carr...
“Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons” served as the driving force that awarded him a Nobel. However, President Obama would go on toapprovemore drone strikes in his first year in office than President Bush carried out during his entire administration. The alleged...
A lot of Americans have an impression that drone strikes are less damaging to civilian populations than conventional airstrikes. This would be false. In fact, earlier this month I highlighted an article from the Guardian that demonstrated how in reality drone strikes are10x more likely to harm ...
far too many civilian casualties are occurring as a result of America’s so-called “War on Terror.”A report by Human RightsWatch in 2013 analyzed six airstrikes in Yemen carried out since 2009. The organization found that out of the 82 people who died in the airstrikes, 57 were ...
we must uphold standards that reflect our values. That means taking strikes only when we face a continuing, imminent threat, and only where there is near certainty of no civilian casualties. For our actions should meet a simple test: we must not create more enemies than we take off the bat...
where he was killed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs. In the memo to a lieutenant, bin Laden advised that his men leave the Pakistani tribal regions where the drone strikes have been overwhelmingly concentrated and head to a remote part of Afghanistan and he also suggested that his son Hamza...