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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Diplomat: Each US Drone Attack Creates '40 to 60' New Enemies
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013"My former colleagues are probably going to get upset with me," says former diplomat who calls out US government for failed strategy in Yemen.
The U.S. military, according to one former diplomat with a frontrow seat to its drone policy in Yemen, is creating new terrorists in that country at breakneck speed.
In an article published at TomDispatch earlier this week, the site's editor Tom Engelhardt gave the recent and ongoing counterterrorism strategy of the U.S. military an unkind moniker by calling it a perpetual "blowback machine."
In the post-9/11 world, according to Engelhardt, "wherever U.S. military power has been applied," the consistent outcome of armed interventionfrom the illegal invasion of Iraq to the NATO-backed overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya, and the ongoing U.S. drone campaigns in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere has been to "destabilize whole regions."
Butdespite being one of the most informed and sharply critical voices on the failure of the U.S. drone waryou don't have to take Engelhardt's word for it.
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US Diplomat: Each US Drone Attack Creates '40 to 60' New Enemies (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)1. It's a business model
No, really.
frylock
(34,825 posts)4. yarp
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Hey, if we run out of enemies how will we ever justify blowing all that money on war tech?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. Well, if we run out of ME turrists we can go back to the Commies
There's still a few of them left, right?