Long, long hand-wringing piece from WaPo on the use of drones to go after America's enemies.
If we're not able to infiltrate the terrorists, and we're not willing to put a hundred thousand Marines into a country for a couple dozen years to fix the place, and we're not willing to bomb a region back to the Stone Age to kill a few terrorists, then our choices are simple: find a way to zap the terrorists, or roll over and let the terrorists win. Even sensible Democrats won't choose the latter.
What is needed, and what the article makes clear is needed, is transparency within the oversight structure: no administration should be allowed to refuse to divulge, to the Congressional oversight committees, the target lists, operations and rules of engagement. Congress pays for all this so the oversight committee chairs have to be briefed. Obama (as you might expect) isn't doing that, and that has to be corrected. |
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