Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the last several months, predator drone strikes have killed dozens of innocent civilians and suspected “militants” in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and elsewhere. Like President Richard Nixon, who secretly ordered a military invasion of Cambodia and Laos during the U.S.-Vietnam Conflict, President Barack Obama has denied that such military strikes are invasions. Instead, and like Nixon, Obama’s administration and chief advisors have justified these deadly drone attacks that have occurred in sovereign foreign nations, as being necessary to national security interests and needful in protecting American citizens. They have also claimed…
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Politics of Predator Drone Strikes and Military Invasions