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by sleepyK 4548 days ago
What right does America have to kill a wedding party in Yemen? Indeed, what right does America have to kill any "suspected terrorist" in Yemen?

This is just another example of how the convenience of drone strikes has led to the belittling of war.

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Indeed, what right does America have to kill any "suspected terrorist" in Yemen?

Mostly because the people in charge of approving that in the Yemeni government have approved it [1]

[1] http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/09/30/264233/yemens-hadi-...

Just as in the past we outsourced our repression to client states in the region, those same regimes are now outsourcing their counterterrorism to us in the form of drone strikes. We are helping to consolidate the power of creatures like Saleh, at the eventual ruinous cost of American lives and global legitimacy through the inevitable blowback.