Do Drone Strikes Create More Terrorists Than They
Kill?
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Nearly 90 percent of people killed by US drone strikes in
Afghanistan during a five-month period were civilians. That is
according to an investigation of leaked documents, published by The
Intercept, called, The Drone Papers.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald debates Professor Christine Fair on the
effectiveness of the US drone programme.
Posted October 25, 2015
US President Barack Obama said in May 2013,
"Before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no
civilians will be killed or injured." But, the cache of secret
documents suggest strikes are often carried out based on thin
evidence and the majority of those killed are not the intended
targets.
The government defends the programme, saying it is
needed to "act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent
threat to the American people", but some, including Robert Grenier,
the former head of CIA counterterrorism center, argue the US is
"creating more enemies than [it is] removing from the battlefield".
So, do drone strikes create more terrorists than
they kill? In this week's Arena, Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of
The Intercept, debates Georgetown University Associate
Professor Christine Fair.
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