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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/af...229379353.html
When drones first appeared on the battlefield as reconnaissance aircraft during the Afghan invasion, they were hailed as a major step forward because they took American pilots out of harm's way. I don't think anyone was surprised when we started arming them, and this, too seemed like a huge victoryno longer did America have to put her pilots in harm's way when prosecuting war against our enemies. But now, drones are used for strikes which are far more aggressive than we would be conducting if we could only use missiles and piloted aircraft. Does anyone think we would regularly launch cruise missiles or piloted jets to bomb Pakistani soil as nonchalantly as we launch drone strikes?
Now it seems the drones are expanding beyond that one theater of war and into Somalia, long an American bugaboo. This seems the first step along a new policy of the increasingly-aggressive use of American force in "troublesome regions" because the removal of any Americans from harm's way renders the potential political fallout orders of magnitude smaller. With Obama already being criticized by his base for being overly rambunctious in his efforts in Afghan War, do you think this expansion of American military assertiveness will cost him even more and further drive down turnout come November?
When drones first appeared on the battlefield as reconnaissance aircraft during the Afghan invasion, they were hailed as a major step forward because they took American pilots out of harm's way. I don't think anyone was surprised when we started arming them, and this, too seemed like a huge victoryno longer did America have to put her pilots in harm's way when prosecuting war against our enemies. But now, drones are used for strikes which are far more aggressive than we would be conducting if we could only use missiles and piloted aircraft. Does anyone think we would regularly launch cruise missiles or piloted jets to bomb Pakistani soil as nonchalantly as we launch drone strikes?
Now it seems the drones are expanding beyond that one theater of war and into Somalia, long an American bugaboo. This seems the first step along a new policy of the increasingly-aggressive use of American force in "troublesome regions" because the removal of any Americans from harm's way renders the potential political fallout orders of magnitude smaller. With Obama already being criticized by his base for being overly rambunctious in his efforts in Afghan War, do you think this expansion of American military assertiveness will cost him even more and further drive down turnout come November?
