RE: As US Drone Strikes Rise in Yemen, So Does Anger
May 4, 2013 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2013 at 6:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I don't understand why Yemeni thinks their will matters or that they should live except for the convenience of the US?
Oh, right, they are humans too. It's so easy to forget that technicality when you are wrapped in red white and blue.
You overestimate the ability of local government consent in mitigating blowback to the US.
The drone policy has an effect of creating two strata in the Muslim world:
A ruling class that is increasingly ineffectual because it is increasingly hard to balance the need to retain sufficient domestic support to survive, to say nothing of effectively govern.
And a large discontented underclass that increasingly feels a sense of global islamic anti-western solidarity, and inreasingly susceptible to radicalization.
Each collateral casaulty of the drone policy probably moves a thousand previously indifferent street muslims a few percent closer to radicalization.
Oh, right, they are humans too. It's so easy to forget that technicality when you are wrapped in red white and blue.
(May 3, 2013 at 9:39 pm)Dragonetti Wrote: Their local government has given consent for these types of attacks. They do not have the power to police their occupants. This puts less personnel in danger. The men attacked are usually a target by their own local government.
You overestimate the ability of local government consent in mitigating blowback to the US.
The drone policy has an effect of creating two strata in the Muslim world:
A ruling class that is increasingly ineffectual because it is increasingly hard to balance the need to retain sufficient domestic support to survive, to say nothing of effectively govern.
And a large discontented underclass that increasingly feels a sense of global islamic anti-western solidarity, and inreasingly susceptible to radicalization.
Each collateral casaulty of the drone policy probably moves a thousand previously indifferent street muslims a few percent closer to radicalization.
