The zombie robot ninja strategy continues
The Washington Post reports that the Obama Administration has a long term view of their use of drones and their “kill list” – long term in that they plan to continue it for about ten years.
Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.
“We can’t possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us,” a senior administration official said. “It’s a necessary part of what we do. .?.?. We’re not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of everybody holding hands and saying, ‘We love America.’ ”
That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism. Targeting lists that were regarded as finite emergency measures after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are now fixtures of the national security apparatus. The rosters expand and contract with the pace of drone strikes but never go to zero.
So, they have to admit that targeting terrorists and killing them from thousands of miles away from the potential targets isn’t really working. But like with everything else related to liberalism, that’s no need to forecast an end to it. This administration wasn’t willing to commit the number of troops that the CIA and the generals called for in 2009 and they thought Joe Bite-Me Biden was their strategic genius, so now the Nobel Peace Prize president is looking at a war with no end in sight and a trail of lawyers that extends from here to Pakistan.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
No amount of forces in one country is going to be remotely effective in thwarting a transnational terror organization that not only doesn’t need Afghanistan, but fully intended to draw us into a protracted ground war on Muslim soil.
Half measures like the AFG surge [which Romney called a success] only serve to waste, lives and resources….but so does a COIN campaign in a CT fight.
Still waiting to hear from the et al bunch who were so vocal about how awful, simply awful, drones were. It seems that suddenly they are not so bad after all?
OWB, that’s because The One is using them. Remember, he’s the second coming to them… Can do no wrong. And if you don’t believe them, then your racist because you hate the black man…
The far left is still pretty upset about drone use. I agree with CI. Additionally, we get nothing out of Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is only operating there because we are. The Taliban, thugs that they are, are not a clear and presnet danger necesitating that we stay there.
HM2 FMF-SW Ret (#4): Al Qaeda is only operating there because we are.
Isn’t that what you guys said about Iraq, too?
Thinking back on the early Get Smart series, do you think it possible that some mad genius might hack Drone Control and retarget American leaders, and political lackeys?
Unintended consequences can be so amusing . . .