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Current U.S. policies on using drones for targeted killing are characterized by ambiguities in interpretations of international law and too many generalities, despite recent efforts by the Obama administration to clarify the policies, a new RAND Corporation report finds.
The report outlines an approach that would provide greater clarity, specificity and consistency in U.S. international legal policies involving the use of long-range armed drones in targeted killing.
"Policymakers in the United States and other countries need to define an overall approach to targeted killing using long-range armed drones that protects civilians and human rights, while also allowing reasonable latitude in the fight against terrorism," said Lynn Davis, the study's lead author and a senior fellow at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. "Adopting such an approach would provide a basis for building public support at home and abroad for U.S. policies."
[...] According to the report, the Obama administration's reluctance to pursue international norms has created an environment where countries could employ long-range armed drones in ways that could harm U.S. interests by exacerbating regional tensions and violating human rights through the illegal use of drones to further the agendas of anti-American groups.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday September 12 2016, @07:29AM
I know that bin-laden was totally successful in what he was trying to accomplish. He got us to cower in fear, seeing a boogie man around every corner. We've got TSA agents feeling up the genitals of children and old women, everyone having to take off their shoes to fly in a plane, roving gangs of TSA agents searching people in bus and train stations, our gov't spies on it's citizens harder than they spy on foreign governments.
And we embrace it. Happily. Because we beg them to keep us safe. Stop the next boogie man.