A top story at
NYT:
new report declares U.S. risk never-ending war by continuing wide use of drone strikes.
The
Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones
risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war
and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that other
countries might adopt in the future, according to a report by a
bipartisan panel that includes several former senior intelligence and
military officials.
The
group found that more than a decade into the era of armed drones, the
American government has yet to carry out a thorough analysis of whether
the costs of routine secret killing operations outweigh the benefits.
The report urges the administration to conduct such an analysis and to
give a public accounting of both militants and civilians killed in drone
strikes.
The findings amount to a sort of report card — one that delivers middling grades — a year after
President Obama
gave a speech promising new guidelines for drone strikes and greater
transparency about the killing operations. The report is especially
critical of the secrecy that continues to envelop drone operations and
questions whether they might be creating terrorists even as they are
killing them.
I will refer you here to
my must-read interview with Robert Jay Lifton re: drone strikes.
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