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Showing Original Post only (View all)While the President dances, innocents mourn their dead, dead at the President's hand. [View all]
"These latest strikes in Yemen continue a noted escalation of US attacks that began near the end of 2012.
As Agence France-Presse reports, "Monday's raid brings to at least 25 the number of people killed in US drone strikes since such assaults were intensified on December 24."
As experts and human rights organizations continue to warn the Obama administration that such attacks are counterproductiveincreasing, not lessening, al Qaeda's position in Yemen or elsewherethe Washington Post's weekend report that the White House was "institutionalizing" the practice of assassination by drone with a new "playbook" was met with deep criticism."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/21-3
And we wonder why people around the world hate us and want to attack us. Hell, if my loved ones were dying while the President danced, I'd be looking for revenge myself. These drone attacks, this endless War on Terra is counterproductive in establishing good relations with people around the world.
Hopefully this administration will come to its senses. Sadly, I don't think it will, which means sooner or later this will come back to bite us. Perhaps then we will finally learn this lesson that we've been learning and relearning for decades now.