Friday, December 14, 2012

          

           I do not think the US should use predator drones. We are just asking for a world of hurt. People have been so paranoid about the 911 attacks happening again, but if we had technology like this running through the sky, we could have some serious issues with security.
           People of the US could have many pro's to the idea of a drone. They could be used to get to people from far away and assassinate people that try and hurt us.
The people of CNN say this "The US military and CIA regard the drones as invaluable because of their long range and the way they can attack specific buildings even deep within Taliban-dominated areas (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2009/08/the-pros-and-cons-of-killer-drones/27322/)." They are not wrong. Drones have the ability to get to things we can't and they save human lives, by going into the battle for us. People don't even have to get in a plane to fight someone, they just send a drone to do it. CNN also said this "If reports prove true, it could be considered a victory in the controversial war-by-remote-control over Pakistan's tribal areas. Mehsud is Pakistan's most wanted man -- he has a $5 million bounty on his head -- and is blamed for a wave of suicide bombings, as well as orchestrating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in late 2007."(http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2009/08/the-pros-and-cons-of-killer-drones/27322/)." We could win any war and even the Taliban could be obliterated. "The US military and CIA regard the drones as invaluable because of their long range and the way they can attack specific buildings even deep within Taliban-dominated areas(http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2009/08/the-pros-and-cons-of-killer-drones/27322/)."
          According to people who support these drones we would never have a security threat or war, but what we don't think of is that a machine can be hacked. Even the computer you are reading this blog has the possibility of being hacked for information. A predator drone would hold every bit of information on the mission it was assigned, and as soon as the people we are attempting to attack get there hands on it we are giving away a government secret and we have to start from scratch. The other issue is that we are killing off the Pakistani Taliban Government too quickly. DoD said it best ,“Right now our biggest problem is not the [extremist] networks in the FATA, but the fact that Pakistan may collapse if this political instability continues(http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/05/11/drones-hardly-ever-kill-bad-guys/).” The U.S. should stop the bombing campaign against the Pakistani Taliban and instead return to a narrower target set aimed only at Al Qaeda operatives." We cant expect the people we are trying to help to be able to keep re electing new and better people if we kill their government so they cant keep up.Drones are giving us unnatural speed with murder and destruction. Also, we don't always hit people of the Taliban. sometimes we hit innocent civilians. “The Taliban don’t go to a military base to build bombs or do training,” Mr. Roggio said. “There are families and neighbors around. I believe the people conducting the strikes work hard to reduce civilian casualties. They could be 20 percent. They could be 5 percent. But I think the C.I.A.’s claim of zero civilian casualties in a year is absurd(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/asia/12drones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0).” We cant allow these things to get any deeper into warfare then they already are. they are a threat to national security and will cause us to have more terrorist attacks.


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