pmaitra
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Is Obama's drone doctrine counter-productive?
BBC News - Is Obama's drone doctrine counter-productive?
Salient points in favour:
Salient points against:
BBC News - Is Obama's drone doctrine counter-productive?
Salient points in favour:
- President Obama personally approves every single drone strike and takes moral responsibility for them.
- This frees up a lot of the people (military generals, analysts, etc.) from speaking up their mind.
- The President takes care to minimize civilian casualties.
- Drones are preferred over bots on the ground because of obvious less threat to the soldiers.
Salient points against:
- Drone strikes kill women and children.
- They are illegal under international law.
- It is a seduction of simple solutions to problems.