As US Drone Strikes Rise in Yemen, So Does Anger

[Dragonetti]

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.

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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.

I am aware of the blow back.
Also, I am aware the local governments inability to mitigate the blow back.
The radicalization is the local religious and government blaming westerns for all their problems. They are all greedy with power and money. Most of the power players will sell their local constituents for money, and they blame all problems created on the Western Countries. But, we also back some of the countries government, which causes most of their local problems.
Their arrogance plays a major roll with the people in power.
The local religious groups can and do manipulate the local populous via religion and poverty.