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Brennan's Foes Line Up - And It's Not About Drones

Ken2168 Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 2:05 PM

Basically, Drones have a ~part~ in the war. There are times when drones can gain a great deal of information about the enemy, or even make strikes, without putting our soldiers at risk. They are not, however, the end-all and be-all of warfare, and there is Obama's problem. You can't use drones exclusively any more than you can use any one tool or strategy exclusively, and we'd have much the same problem if we were only using tanks, or only using helicopters, which would achieve the same goal of lots of kills (some of them enemy) and few casualties on our side.

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Brennan's Foes Line Up - And It's Not About Drones

Drone warfare and targeted killings of American citizens seem to be the one controversy conservatives and Republicans have given approval to throughout the nomination debates surrounding Obama CIA nominee John Brennan. The Obama Administration's targeted killing program has taken a back seat to intelligence leaks, counterterrorism strategy and interrogation tactics.

Sen. Susan Collins was the lone Republican standout when it came to drone policy questions at yesterday's hearing, and some defense analysts tell Townhall that the targeted killings program, even when U.S. citizens are on Obama's "kill list," has been and can continue to be an important weapon in the...