Survey reports widespread opposition to US drone policy

[VCheng]

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Drones are winning the battle for the US tactically, but not strategically. The negative fall out from these drone strikes far outweigh the positives. Every civilian killed creates 10 militants whom want to cause destruction to US.

As long as the fallout is contained thousands of miles away, mere wanting to harm the US could be acceptable. The real issue is that the militants must not be supported as non-state actors by a state as a matter of its security policy.

 

[Jango]

You are either naive or totally removed from ground realities if you think the drone attacks are done randomly. The reason drones are effective is that they can hover for hours above a designated target and execute the mission once the controllers are absolutely sure (as much as one can be in the fog of war) of the hit. Apples to Apples, Pakistani COIN ops have killed much more civilians than drones ever will. Its just that the optics are worse for Drones since they belong to an outside party.

Any proof that air strikes have killed scores of civilians as per your claim?

It has happened only one or two times, and there was an apology to the family.

 

[Hyde]

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