BBC NEWS--"US warned on deadly drone attacks":
The US has been warned that its use of drones to target suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan may violate international law.
UN human rights investigator Philip Alston said the US should explain the legal basis for attacking individuals with the remote-controlled aircraft.
He said the CIA had to show accountability to international laws which ban arbitrary executions.
Drones have killed about 600 people in north-west Pakistan since August 2008.
At first I was struck at how this article hardly referenced our current Commander in Chief, but Obama is mentioned in the next-to-last sentence:
Mr Alston's warning came as US President Barack Obama reviews US strategy in the Afghan campaign.
Which leads me to think that drones may perfectly illustrate Obama's uninspired war-by-proxy strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2 comments:
Obama's uninspired war-by-proxy strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan
What would an example of an "inspired" strategy be?
I see your point . . . "half-hearted" might have been more accurate to describe Obama's inadequate strategy for "the war of necessity."
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