1. After UK drones kill UK citizens in Syria, now an urgent debate about drones. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/drone-british-citizens-syria-uk-david-cameron … Here’s my advice from New York:
11. And proponents of counterinsurgency warfare have also condemned drone assassination as a strategic liability:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17exum.html?_r=1 …
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12. My own
@AJAM article on why drone assassinations undermine national security:http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/drone-blowback.html … -
13. Dissent against drone assassination should not be limited to legalist critiques. Westminster has more lawyers, and will win that battle.
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14. I hope the UK won’t be suckered into “a human rights approach” to drone assassination, as happened in the US:http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n13/chase-madar/short-cuts …
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15. Moral arguments against drone assassination are buttressed, not contradicted, by strategic criticism of the tactic.
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