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 battlefield. I also believe we be more transparent ...
Drone Strike on Seminary Safe Haven Reignites Debate; Obama Promised Efforts to Limit Civilian Casualties
Under Obama’s direction, hundreds of drone strikes have been utilized to combat ISIS. Drone warfare is perhaps the most potent weapon available to him to achieve his stated goal of relentlessly going after ISIS “until it’s removed from Syria and from Iraq and finally destroyed.” It is ...
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 ...
Obama’sten-fold expansion of drone strikesfurther reduced U.S. casualties relative to numbers of foreigners killed. This fostered an illusion of peace and normality for Americans in the homeland even as the death toll inflicted by America’s post-9/11 wars almost certainlypassed the two million...
Drone Casualties: The New Body Count (Updated) A method of war, not a strategy W.J. Astore In President Obama’s drone wars, how many innocent civilians have been killed? An official U.S. government reportwill suggestthat roughly 100 civilians have been killed since 2009 in drone strikes,...
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 ...
Firstly, the reality of the president’s true policies has finally penetrated mainstream discussion, spurred on by the Guantánamo hunger strikes, revelations about en mass domestic surveillance, prosecution of journalists and whistleblowers, as well as by the growing consciousness about the drone ...
Question:I'll try to work on that. So one issue that Judge Garland would likely never be able to consider if he were confirmed concerns the President’s authority to conduct drone strikes away from active battlefields. And these are strikes that you have continuously authorized on the basis ...
” the president said, but he emphasized that the targeted individuals aim to exact indiscriminate violence, “and the death toll from their acts of terrorism against Muslims dwarfs any estimate of civilian cas