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According to media news after Pakistan and Afghanistan, the US is spreading its drone attacks to Somalia and Yemen. Several people were killed and wounded by a US drone attack in Yemens restive southern province of Abyan.
Some days ago the US also conducted a drone attack in Somalia, wounding two senior members of Al Shabab fighter group. The airstrike makes Somalia at least the sixth country where the US is reportedly using drone aircraft.
The realty is that drone attacks provide nothing except deaths and destruction and hate and suicide attacks. Drone attacks are not only against the sovereignty of any country but also against the charter of the United Nations. These days drone attacks and killing of civilians has been the main cause for recruiting militants.
Yemen is a tribal society and drone attacks against any tribe could fuel the ongoing conflict. Yemen is already facing political crises and this drone onslaught attacks would further destabilise the entire region.
Source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-letter-display.asp?xfile=data/letters/2012/April/letters_April37.xml§ion=letters
Does anyone else wonder how much blowback will result and how much money will be wasted as a result of these civilian-slaughtering drone strikes?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're the United States of Godalmighty America! We're not subject to any of the usual rules, because we're exceptionally exceptional. Blowback, as if! That's for other countries to worry about, not the United States.
FSogol
(45,476 posts)Motto: "All the Obama bashing that's fit to print!"
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bvar22
(39,909 posts)...drone attacks in which civilians are killed would be labeled as "TERROR ATTACKS",
and rightly so.
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. ---Senator Obama, 12-20-2007
"Several people were killed and wounded by a US drone attack in Yemens restive southern province of Abyan."
Did these people have a plan and the resources to pose "an actual or imminent threat" ?