Is Obama's drone doctrine counter-productive?
That is the main thrust of a long, detailed and fascinating piece in the New York Times.
It comes as experts have been telling me that the president is wrong to see drones as a "silver bullet" that solves some critical problems about the morality and efficacy of America's use of military power.
The New York Times paints a picture of a regular, 100-strong video conference meeting that decides the names to be put on a "kill list": the next suspected terrorists to be targeted.
It quotes the president's national security adviser, Tom Donilon: "He is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go… he's determined to keep the tether pretty short."
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18270490
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No, because the point is simply to produce more weapons so corporations can reap vast amount of profits from selling them to the US government by borrowing money from the Chinese.
So the more people Obama kills and labels terrorists (they are "terrorists" because they don't have uniforms and live in their own villages), the more people will take up arms and.....provide more targets for defense contractors (i.e; drone manufacturers).
So productivity is actually increasing. More angry villagers to become "terrorists" that become targets, requiring US to borrow more money from the Chinese to kill them. It is perpetual-motion-money machine. Beautiful.
Nixon actually pioneered this in the 70's in Vietnam by using manned aircraft to obliterate entire cities because they harbored the "enemy". And it worked! The US got the enemy to come to the negotiating table and agree to admit the US "won" as long as the US left the country.
So, maybe Obama is using a historical perspective. Maybe Mr. Obama figures he needs to kill many more people so that a coup is triggered in Pakistan allowing the fundamentalists to seize control and admit that the US wins. Then we can move on to assassinating people in other countries. So not to worry! We live in a target rich environment (6 billion people 
) so potential profits are nearly limitless!
See! Mission Accomplished! Change I never would've believed in! 
seems to be.
DU is just prone to groupthink and mass posting of OPs on quite a lot of subjects..
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