VIEW: Drone attacks — myth and reality — Muhammad Zubair

[LeGenD]

Collateral damage is expected from missile strikes. Weapons do not discriminate between innocent and guilty.

However, drone strikes have taken out lot of terrorists including the top Pakistani TTP nemesis.

Our sovereignty have already been violated by foreign militants and terrorists. So talk about violation of sovereignty by drones does not makes much sense.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Our sovereignty have already been violated by foreign militants and terrorists. So talk about violation of sovereignty by drones does not makes much sense.

Talk about sovereignty 'does not make sense' only if we agree that the US is in the same category as the foreign terrorists and militants 'violating Pakistani territory'.

 

[Awesome]

Collateral damage is expected from missile strikes. Weapons do not discriminate between innocent and guilty.

However, drone strikes have taken out lot of terrorists including the top Pakistani TTP nemesis.

Our sovereignty have already been violated by foreign militants and terrorists. So talk about violation of sovereignty by drones does not makes much sense.

If somebody says drone strikes are for TOP terrorists thats another thing. These days they kill the rank and file and in the process kill 20 other people.

In the last 100 strikes maybe 1 or 2 somebody of significance was killed. It's not because Drone strikes are bad at aiming, its the concept of signature strikes that is bad. Signature means to look out for signs of terrorism and shooting blind, rather than actually spotting terrorism.

 

[Solomon2]

If somebody says drone strikes are for TOP terrorists thats another thing. These days they kill the rank and file and in the process kill 20 other people.

Asim, al-Libi was the guy who the Lebanese discovered was trying to blow up airliners with liquid bombs in simultaneous attacks. He was trying to kill thousands of innocent people - another 9/11 - and there is no reason to think that all of the other thirty or so people who were with him were innocents.

What would you have done if you were behind the controls of that drone and all you had to go on was "signature" and maybe a blurry image of your quarry?

 

[truthseer]

Mr.Solomon- Even if we do so, we have the right to kill our own people, you don't

 

[Awesome]

What would you have done if you were behind the controls of that drone and all you had to go on was "signature" and maybe a blurry image of your quarry?

Not shoot, obviously.

Keep firing at random people until you hit one right guy?

 

[Solomon2]

Mr.Solomon- Even if we do so, we have the right to kill our own people, you don't

If that's so, then why don't we hear about the PAF acknowledging responsibility for civilian casualties? It seems Pakistani F-16s make no mistakes, whereas U.S. drones, precision instruments by comparison, make many if not all.

Or is the U.S. taking the heat for the Pakistani military's targeting errors?

 

[truthseer]

If that's so, then why don't we hear about the PAF acknowledging responsibility for civilian casualties? It seems Pakistani F-16s make no mistakes, whereas U.S. drones, precision instruments by comparison, make many if not all.

Or is the U.S. taking the heat for the Pakistani military's targeting errors?

Conspiracy theories, I believe.

Maybe, just maybe, because the ISI has actual intelligence on the ground and not paid low-level ones who'd think that giving location of civilians would earn them money. Just a guess!