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posted by on Monday March 20 2017, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the discuss dept.

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.

Source: http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/us-drone-strikes-have-gone-up-432-since-trump-took-office


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:46PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:46PM (#482234)

    We found the 'murrican!
    Seriously. I tell you to stop pissing off people so much that they want to hurt you from half a world away, with only low-tech weapons and suicidal idiots, and your interpretation is that it's not possible to purge the world from "evil"?

    With that level of education and thinking, the 100-year war is gonna stop being about them damn brits losing to frogs...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @06:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @06:32PM (#482300)

    "When I grow up, I want my head to land 107 yards away from the fine cloud of particles gently drifting in the wind away from where my body was" said no child raised in a non-oppressive place

    Gee, I didn't realize that 'murrica was responsible for all the oppression that produces terrorists. Mayhaps terrorists' socio-political system has something to do with it, too?

    (Tongue-in-cheek response aside, yes, the USA needs to stop its crimes of meddling with foreign countries. I've ceased supporting the US government financially, and encourage others to consider doing the same since fully 75% of its funds come straight from working-class individuals.)