Drone Strikes
Drone Strikes
After reading this article about the drone strikes and looking into other articles about drone strikes I am in favor of drone strikes that effectively hit the target without civilian deaths; (which is the major criticism of drone strikes) but not in favor of the power and strength our government is expressing while these strikes get used. These drone strikes are the centerpiece of the Obama administrations counter terrorism policy especially in Pakistan and Yemen. However though using these drone strikes as a part of our “counter terrorism policy” is hypocritical because like one the respondents to the article said “If Obama cannot understand that to wage terror is to invite terror then I for one can no longer believe in him.” This respondent is right, if America as a nation is going to be using these drone missile strikes on terrorists but end up killing a few civilians in the process is that moral? The continuous killing does not eliminate nor stop hatred towards the United States, in fact I think it makes the hatred stronger and other countries more inclined to recoil. Not only are these drone strikes not ethical or moral neither is this “disposition matrix” Obama has created to determine who will be executed (by drone strikes) without due process. This “kill list” Obama invented was started because he refused to detain terrorist suspects, instead his solution is to just kill them at will. This strikes several issues starting with our executive branch in this instance is over stretching not only their power but there right to act in this manner without going through proper policies. With this kill list keep getting added to either monthly or how ever often, is it even effective? Or just a way for the government to flex there power over the nation and too other nations. It’s a little of both in this circumstance, using drone strikes shows other nations we have the technology to strike all over the world whenever at the push of button,
After reading this article about the drone strikes and looking into other articles about drone strikes I am in favor of drone strikes that effectively hit the target without civilian deaths; (which is the major criticism of drone strikes) but not in favor of the power and strength our government is expressing while these strikes get used. These drone strikes are the centerpiece of the Obama administrations counter terrorism policy especially in Pakistan and Yemen. However though using these drone strikes as a part of our “counter terrorism policy” is hypocritical because like one the respondents to the article said “If Obama cannot understand that to wage terror is to invite terror then I for one can no longer believe in him.” This respondent is right, if America as a nation is going to be using these drone missile strikes on terrorists but end up killing a few civilians in the process is that moral? The continuous killing does not eliminate nor stop hatred towards the United States, in fact I think it makes the hatred stronger and other countries more inclined to recoil. Not only are these drone strikes not ethical or moral neither is this “disposition matrix” Obama has created to determine who will be executed (by drone strikes) without due process. This “kill list” Obama invented was started because he refused to detain terrorist suspects, instead his solution is to just kill them at will. This strikes several issues starting with our executive branch in this instance is over stretching not only their power but there right to act in this manner without going through proper policies. With this kill list keep getting added to either monthly or how ever often, is it even effective? Or just a way for the government to flex there power over the nation and too other nations. It’s a little of both in this circumstance, using drone strikes shows other nations we have the technology to strike all over the world whenever at the push of button,