[Vision2020] drones

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 2/11/2013 8:56 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:
> This is the trouble with wasting time on philosophical debates like 
> gun control and gay marriage. There are things that all of us should 
> rally around, issues that matter.
<[snip]>

 From WBUR Boston, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, 11 February 2013:

The Obama Administration, Drone Strikes, And The Law

The Obama administration’s argument on drone warfare. Even against 
Americans. We push deeper on drones, killing, and the law.

It’s been a great ride for advocates of America’s booming 
kill-‘em-where-they-stand drone program. Kill lists. Targeted 
assassination. Death from the sky. No muss, no fuss. All secrecy, and 
then the public victory dance when a big al Qaeda kill is claimed, 
somewhere “over there.” Even of American citizens.

Barack Obama skewered George Bush and Dick Cheney for going 
“extra-legal,” but President Obama has been the champion of drones. And 
“don’t ask” has been the policy when it comes to legal rationale.

This hour, On Point: we’re asking, about American law and death by drone.

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/02/11/drone-strikes


Ken