Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar Obama voerde al 10 keer meer drone aanvallen uit, dan onder president George W. Bush werden uitgevoerd, dezelfde Bush die e.e.a. introduceerde........
Uit onderzoek is duidelijk geworden dat meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers die bij deze aanvallen worden vermoord, omstanders zijn, die niet eens verdacht worden door de VS!! U snapt het al, inclusief vrouwen en kinderen....... Dat 'verdacht' gaf ik in vet weer, daar de doelen nog altijd verdachten zijn, dus niet door een rechter veroordeelde personen....... Deze vorm van terreur wordt dan ook 'standrechtelijke executie' genoemd..........
Overigens uitermate vreemd en schandalig, dat politici als Koenders deze standrechtelijke executies, zoals gezegd een ernstige vorm van terreur, nooit veroordelen. Kijk als Rusland hetzelfde zou doen, waren Koenders rapen allang gaar geweest........
Hier het artikel van Anti-Media:
U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 432% Since Trump Took Office
(ANTIMEDIA) When
he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of
anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush’s drone wars. The
Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten
times more drone strikes than
the previous president, and estimates late
in Obama’s presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians.
In 2015, it was reported that up to 90%
of drone casualties were
not the intended targets.
Current
President Donald Trump campaigned on a less interventionist foreign
policy, claiming to be opposed to nation-building and misguided
invasions. But less than two months into his presidency, Trump has
expanded the drone strikes that plagued Obama’s “peaceful”
presidency.
According
to an analysis from
Micah Zenko, an analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations, Trump
has markedly increased U.S. drone strikes since taking office. Zenko,
who reported earlier
this year on the over 26,000 bombs Obama dropped in 2016, summarized
the increase:
“During
President Obama’s two terms in office, he
approved 542 such
targeted strikes in 2,920 days—one every 5.4 days. From his
inauguration through today, President Trump had approved at least 36
drone strikes or raids in 45 days—one every 1.25 days.”
That’s
an increase of 432 percent.
He
highlights some of the attacks:
“These
include three
drone strikes in Yemen on January 20, 21, and 22;
the January
28 Navy SEAL raid in Yemen; one
reported strike in Pakistan on March 1; more
than thirty strikes in Yemen on
March 2 and 3; and at
least one more on March 6.”
The
Trump administration has provided little acknowledgment of the human
toll these strikes are taking. As journalist Glenn Greenwald noted in
the Intercept,
the Trump administration hastily brushed off recent civilian
casualties in favor of honoring the life of a single U.S. soldier who
died during one of the Yemen raids just days after Trump took office:
“The
raid in Yemen
that cost Owens his life also killed 30 other people, including ‘many
civilians,’ at least
nine of whom were children.
None of them were mentioned by Trump in last night’s speech, let
alone honored with applause and the presence of grieving relatives.
That’s because they were Yemenis, not Americans; therefore, their
deaths, and lives, must be ignored (the only exception was some
fleeting media mention of the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki,
but only because she was a U.S. citizen and because of the irony
that Obama
killed her 16-year-old American brother with
a drone strike).”
Greenwald
notes this is typical of not just Trump, but the American war machine
in general:
“We
fixate on the Americans killed, learning their names and life stories
and the plight of their spouses and parents, but steadfastly ignore
the innocent people the U.S. government kills, whose numbers are
always far greater.”
Though
some Trump supporters sang his praises as a peace candidate before he
took office, the president’s militarism was apparent on many
occasions. He openly advocated increasing the size and scope of the
military, a promise he is now moving to keep. And as Zenko
highlights, Trump was disingenuous with his rhetoric against
interventionism:
“He
claimed to have opposed the 2003 Iraq War when he actually backed it,
and to have opposed the 2011 Libya intervention when he
actually strongly endorsed it,
including with U.S. ground troops. Yet, Trump and his loyalists
consistently implied that he would be less supportive of costly and
bloody foreign wars, especially when compared to President Obama, and
by extension, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
As
Trump continues to dig his heels into decades-old policies he has
criticized himself — reportedly mulling
over sending ground troops into Syria — he is increasingly proving
to be yet another establishment warmonger implementing policies
that spawn
the creation of more terrorists.
As Zenko concludes:
“We
are now on our third post-9/11 administration pursuing many of the
same policies that have failed to meaningfully reduce the number of
jihadist extremist fighters, or their attractiveness among potential
recruits or self-directed terrorists. The Global War on Terrorism
remains broadly unquestioned within Washington, no matter who is in
the White House.”
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