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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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 20 2017, @03:45PM (1 child)
Men in armor die, men with goggles die, artillery men die. Missiles - ehhh. No drone operator is going to die as a result of enemy action.
And, BTW, I didn't call for a "fair fight". There is no such thing as a "fair fight". The fight you win is "fair".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @05:02PM
Then you seem to be begging your own question.
Personally if I'm guessing where you're coming from, I think I agree with you. Maybe. TMB seems to be getting to the crux of the question.
I'll have to review the arc of Gundam Wing where mobile dolls [wikia.com] were important. I think what Gundam Wing was trying to say was that the human soul was important, so then we got the ZERO system [wikia.com] which allowed Zechs and Heero to battle it out in an AMV [youtube.com] set to a remix of Duel of the Fates from SW:TPM.