Friday 21 September 2012
At the risk of oversimplifying: an “effective” drone strike campaign kills mainly people who are easily replaced, meanwhile creating more hatred of America and thus boosting terrorist recruitment in both the short and long run. And, as a bonus: the strikes scatter terrorists to new arenas where the self-defeating cycle can be repeated! If this is a strategy for eliminating terrorists, what would a strategy for creating them look like? Drone Czar Hit by Surgical Journalistic Strike ☀

