3. It's assumed in the US & UK that drones are good for national security. This assumption should be attacked, as it is false.
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4. Most of the dissent against drones in the US is legalistic pseudo-dissent. But there are many military/natsec skeptics of drone attacks.
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5. For instance, US Army Gen. (ret) Mike Flynn who says drone assassinations create more terrorists than they kill. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/16/retired-general-drones-create-terrorists-kill-iraq-war-helped-create-isis/ …
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6. Former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair also a drone skeptic: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/nobody-knows-if-drone-strikes-pakistan-work-so-let%E2%80%99s-stop-5775 … via
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7. The hawkish Atlantic Council finds that drone strikes undermine US strategy in Yemen: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Drone_Strikes_in_Yemen.pdf …
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8. Former Pentagon flack Nabeel Khoury also argues that U.S. drone strikes in Yemen are a disastrous policy:http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=443 …
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9. James Russell of the Naval Postgraduate School also condemns drone strikes as “a tactic in search of a strategy”:http://www.lobelog.com/drone-wars-tactics-in-search-of-a-strategy/ …
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10. Rex Rivolo, an analyst at the Pentagon’s in-house thinktank, also finds drone attacks a net security liability: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175988/tomgram%3A_andrew_cockburn%2C_how_assassination_sold_drugs_and_promoted_terrorism/ …
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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 …1 reply 5 retweets 1 like
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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