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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: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday September 09 2016, @05:19PM
ISIS is a bunch of rednecks who can't control any area where their religious group isn't a majority. But they are good at advertising, and one of the best propaganda tools they use is the news of the infidels killing muslims (second best is the news of ISIS idiots killing Westerners).
If non-muslims didn't need the muslim areas (for land in the west, oil in the middle, and whatever the fuck we did in the east), those groups would just have their little local spats like the friendly Africans still do (it's out of fashion in South America and Europe, at least for a little while).