Countries’ attacks on their own citizens vindicate those who warned that the US president’s signature practice would echo around the world as the British and Pakistani strikes look unlikely to be their final Two drone strikes by two different countries nearly 3,000km apart this week represent the proliferation of Barack Obama’s signature mode of counter-terrorism.
When the UK and Pakistan announced on Monday that they had each carried out deadly drone strikes against their own citizens, they followed a template sketched by Obama over the past seven years one that critics have warned risks greater destabilization and legal abuse. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com