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Posts Tagged ‘drones’
A 6-Month-Old Blog Post is Burning Up My Comment Feed
Posted: December 16, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: air strikes, airstrikes, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones
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Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obama’s Claim of Just War
Posted: December 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Andrew Exum, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, David Kilcullen, drones, Katherine Tiedemann, Peter Bergen, Quetta, Quetta Shura, Rethink Afghanistan, Union Square
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Sign our CREDO petition to reject escalation in Afghanistan & join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter. But make these your first steps as an activist to end this war, not [...]
Quetta and Meltdown: U.S. AfPak Policy Visits Crazy Town
Posted: September 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Andrew Exum, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, counterinsurgency, drones, Joshua Foust, Kilcullen, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, Taliban
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You can learn more about the dangers posed to U.S. national security by the war in Afghanistan by watching Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six): Security, or by visiting http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Apparently I underestimated the U.S. government’s capacity for crazy. Last week, I [...]
So Much for Airstrike Reduction, Lowering Civilian Casualties
Posted: July 30, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones, Pakistan
The United States should pursue strategies in Afghanistan that focus on reducing civilian deaths and enhancing stability. However, a report today by Julian Barnes at the LA Times shows that the U.S. is shifting drones from hunting al-Qaida to attacking suspected Taliban in Afghanistan, a shift likely to cause more civilian deaths and further destabilization. [...]
Brookings Report on Drones Confirms High Civilian Death Rate and Misses the Point
Posted: July 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Brookings Institution, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Daniel Byman, drones, Leon Panetta, Pakistan
To their credit, the folks over at the Brookings Institution have become one of the first mainstream think tanks to recognize the horrendously indiscriminate nature of drone attacks in Pakistan. Brookings Institute scholar Daniel Byman wrote last Monday: Critics correctly find many problems with this program, most of all the number of civilian casualties the [...]
Wall Street Journal: “We Really Wish We Could Show You Proof for Our Drone Propaganda…”
Posted: July 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: associated press, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, drones, Jeremy Scahill, militarism, Predator, propaganda, Reaper, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal‘s recent editorial [h/t Jeremy Scahill] supporting the CIA’s drone war over Pakistan is rank propaganda. In it, the editors denounce critics of drone strikes who rely on reporters instead of unnamed intelligence sources with unverifiable claims, and they assert that drones–which have killed roughly 800 civilians so far in Pakistan–are humane: [...]
Use of Drones in Pakistan Violates Christian Doctrine on War
Posted: July 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: al-Qaida, Christianity, civilian casualties, drones, Jesus, just war tradition, nonviolence, Pakistan, Taliban
Christians–whether we are adherents of just war tradition or of Christian nonviolence–should not support U.S. policies that kill civilians indiscriminately. However, in the past six days, our government has intensified a policy that does exactly that. The number of suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have spiked dramatically since Friday, July 3, with four strikes [...]
New York Times Again Ignores Civilian Toll of Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Posted: July 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: air strikes, airstrikes, civilian casualties, drones, New York Times, Pakistan, Pir Zubair Shah, Salman Masood
The New York Times again referenced the utility of drone strikes in Pakistan when they “avoid civilian casualties” while failing to mention that the overwhelming majority of people killed by U.S. drones in that country are civilians. Again, from a piece by Salman Masood with Pir Zubair Shah contributing: Publicly, Pakistani officials have been critical [...]
NYT Report Propagandizes for Drones, Ignores Civilian Killings
Posted: July 7, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: air strikes, airstrikes, civilian casualties, drones, New York Times, Pakistan, Pir Zubair Shah, Salman Masood
The story in today’s New York Times by Salman Masood and Pir Zubair Shah on the latest drone strike in Pakistan whitewashes the killing of children and tribal elders in an earlier airstrike: “The increased aerial strikes come as Pakistani military is gearing up for an ambitious offensive against Mr. Mehsud and his fighters, who [...]
