When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush's drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten times more drone strikes than the previous president, and estimates late in Obama's presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians. In 2015, it was reported that up to 90% of drone casualties were not the intended targets.
Current President Donald Trump campaigned on a less interventionist foreign policy, claiming to be opposed to nation-building and misguided invasions. But less than two months into his presidency, Trump has expanded the drone strikes that plagued Obama's "peaceful" presidency.
"During President Obama's two terms in office, he approved 542 such targeted strikes in 2,920 days—one every 5.4 days. From his inauguration through today, President Trump had approved at least 36 drone strikes or raids in 45 days—one every 1.25 days."
That's an increase of 432 [sic] percent.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @02:51PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382011/Bin-Ladens-great-escape-How-worlds-wanted-man-fools-elite-troops-whod-trapped-mountain-lair.html [dailymail.co.uk]
After he had escaped, Bin Laden crowed about how the U.S. had let him go. ‘The Americans exhausted all efforts to blow up and annihilate this tiny spot — wiping it out altogether. Despite all this, we blocked their daily attacks, sending them back defeated, bearing their dead and wounded.
‘And not once did American forces dare storm our position: what clearer proof of their cowardice, fear and lies concerning the myth of their alleged power is there?’