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While the American public has now woken up to the proliferation of unnecessary wars and is more vocal in resisting any loss of our soldiers lives in potential wars that our leaders may propose in the future, drone warfare has largely been excused by the public. Terrorists may be killed, their actions averted, no American lives lost in the process. Who would protest that? Fortunately, many Americans do, and their voices are beginning to be heard more loudly. Why protest? Because it is wrong, legally, morally, diplomatically, practically. Do we really want wars that are easy to fight? We will just end up with more of them. If terrorism is the enemy, there is a consensus that drone warfare is counter-productive, producing more terrorists in the attacked region that it can ever kill. The US should be better than the impersonal arrogance of a drone attack on a sovereign nation, just as we should have been better than slavery, genocide of native Americans, and fire-bombing Dresden's civilian population. The past can't be changed, perhaps, if the public demands it, the present can be.
OBAMA & DRONES:SERIALIZATION OF POLITICAL MURDER
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