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or the second time in about a week, a study has been issued examining
the terrible human costs of the drone wars being carried out and
expanded under President Obama. Entitled "The Civilian Impact of Drones:
Unexamined Costs, Unanswered Questions," the new report was issued on
Oct. 1 by the Columbia Law School and the Center for Civilians in
Conflict, and it constitutes another damning indictment of the policy
using covert drone strikes to kill targets in Pakistan, Yemen, and
Somalia, much of which is personally overseen and approved by Barack
Obama.
A major theme of the study is to debunk the notion of "precision" in
drone strikes. It quotes Obama, for example, as describing drone strikes
as "precise, precision strikes against Al Qaeda and their affiliates."
There is no "precision" in either targetting before strikes, or in
assessing casualities and damage after the fact, the study documents.
The Columbia study notes the difficulty in determining civilian
casualties caused by drone strikes, but notes that the CIA and JSOC (the
military's Joint Special Operations Command) have the same problem: the
lack of active intelligence in areas where the U.S. does not have boots
on the ground. In the Pakistan tribal areas, Yemen, and Somalia — the
U.S. has little if any human intelligence, little signals intelligence
(because of the low-technology environment), and a lot of drone video
surveillance. But the latter is of limited value because of the
inability to distinguish individuals on the ground, and the "soda straw"
effect — a very narrow view, missing the wider picture. (For example,
one drone operator targetted a truck thought to be full of "insurgents;"
after the missile was fired, two young boys riding bicycles unexpectly
appeared on the screen, and the drone operator could do nothing as he
watched the missile kill the two boys as well as the "insurgents" on the
truck.)
The Columbia report, in addition to detailing the harm to civilians
caused by drone strikes, delves deeper into the legal implications of
Obama's policy, and its flagrant violations of the laws of war and
interational humanitarian law. It also does a more thorough analysis of
the roles of the CIA and JSOC, and the different legal authorities under
which they operate, but pointing out that they have become virtually
indistinguishable in practice. As a number of observers have pointed
out, JSOC, sometimes called "the President's army," has a particular
fascination for Obama, and it is his favorite killing instrument.
The super-secret JSOC operates without any significant public
scrutiny and it also evades Congressional oversight, the Columbia report
notes (which may be why Obama loves it so much). JSOC, as Gen. Barry
McCaffrey noted, is "a parallel universe." It operates in almost total
secrecy, outside of the conventional military command structure and
rules of engagement. And it maneuvers in the cracks, in-between
Congressional oversight of either military operations, or intelligence
operations. Many if not most of the drone strikes with high civilian
casualties, often attributed to CIA, are actually carried out by JSOC.
There are many indications that drone strikes are actually increasing
overall violence and contributing to anti-American sentiment. A number
of studies have found that the effect of the drone strikes has been a
radicalization of the population and increased recruiting by Al-Qaeda
and related groups. A lawyer in Yemen said the following in a May tweet:
"Dear Obama, when a US drone kills a child in Yemen, the father will go
to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with al-Qaeda."
Thursday, October 4
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Posted by Howiecopywriter at 7:28 PM
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