Few Batting Eyes at Obama's Deadly Drone Policy | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

Few Batting Eyes at Obama's Deadly Drone Policy | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "He reports that, contrary to the administration's claim that only high-level terrorists researched are targeted, 'the CIA has killed around 12 times more low-level fighters than mid-to-high-level al-Qaida and Taliban leaders since the drone strikes intensified in the summer of 2008.'

Another of his sources, who was involved in our robotic warfare and has since left the service, told him that the CIA's targeting of low-level foot soldiers worries him because 'it degrades the notion we're going after serious threats to the United States.'"

"other American intelligence officers 'proudly tout the drone campaign as the most precise and possibly humane targeted killing program in the history of warfare.'"

What Happens If U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan? Not the End of the World As We Know It | Leon T. Hadar | Cato Institute: Commentary

What Happens If U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan? Not the End of the World As We Know It | Leon T. Hadar | Cato Institute: Commentary: "[If we need to say in Afghanistan] 'To prevent Afghanistan becoming a failed state and a haven for terrorists,' by asking, 'If we are in Afghanistan, why are we not also in Somalia, Yemen or Pakistan?' Rachman point out that these countries (one could add Kashmir and some of our beloved Central Asia's 'Stans' to the list) have become centers of operations for mishmash of radical Islamist terrorist groups"