Drone strikes for dummies

At ProPublica, Cora Currier has a useful and straightforward explainer piece up, outlining Everything We Know So Far About [US] Drone Strikes.

Mike Robinson

That article needs more links
- oasisob1
  
  The links make the article worth reading. You have now dozens of leads to follow to read more and learn about this issue.
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

The article doesn’t offer any better alternative.
- aikimoe
  
  Does it need to?
  
  “Killing lots of innocent men, women, and children in countries with whom we’re not at war and with no oversight creates more enemies,” seem self-evident to me.
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-yemen-us-airstrikes-breed-anger-and-sympathy-for-al-qaeda/2012/05/29/gJQAUmKI0U_print.html
aikimoe

It’s a lot of essential information, but it doesn’t mention that we also use drones to target funerals and first responders. These are, ironically, well-known terrorist tactics.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror-drones-cia-tactics-in-pakistan-include-targeting-rescuers-and-funerals/