The Drone Wars -- Wall Street Journal
Weapons like the Predator kill far fewer civilians.
The Obama Administration has with good reason taken flak for its approach to terrorism since the Christmas Day near-bombing over Detroit. So permit us to laud an antiterror success in the Commander in Chief's first year in office.
Though you won't hear him brag about it, President Obama has embraced and ramped up the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. As tactic and as a technology, drones are one of the main U.S. advantages that have emerged from this long war. (IEDs are one of the enemy's.) Yet their use isn't without controversy, and it took nerve for the White House to approve some 50 strikes last year, exceeding the total in the last three years of the Bush Administration.
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My Comment: The success of the drone war in Pakistan only gives more ammunition to those who are advocating this type of approach in combating present and future insurgencies. As to what is my opinion .... all trends indicate even more drones in the future, and similar platforms that can operate in the seas and on the ground.