August 9, 2016
Obama's Drone Warfare Makes More Terrorists Than It Kills
By Bonnie Kristian
In April, President Obama called his 2011 intervention in Libya the “worst mistake” of his presidency, and it’s not a bad candidate for the title. But beyond any one specific conflict, Obama’s tenure has been closely tied to a tactic—drone warfare—which is at least in the running for second place in this administration’s panoply of foreign policy errors.
Though weaponized U.S. drone use began under former President George W. Bush, it was with Obama that the model really came into its own, both numerically and in the national conversation. Once shocking for their mechanized, even trivialized killing technique—who can forget the 2012 “kill list” story, which saw Obama using grotesque ‘baseball cards’ to handpick people for assassination by robot?—drone strikes today have become routine. The White House insistently describes the practice as surgical targeting, claiming just this month (over the many protests of independent watchdogs) that accidental civilian deaths are negligible.
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/08/09/obamas_drone_warfare_makes_more_terrorists_than_it_kills_109683.html
