Drone strikes were more than just the centre piece of obama's counterterrorism strategy. They represented how he saw the war on terr, not as thing to end, but something to re orient. Fahim corace is a 13 year old boy living in tribal pakistan who lost an eye and was put into a coma for 40 days after drone strike. He tried at every vantage to get both pakistan authorities, tribal authorities and the united states embassy to admit what they had done to him. What he got instead was a bad of cash that was supposed to be blood money and also hush money. There are going to be some people who are like legitimately dangerous people who the drones
Episode two of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Obama, ISIS, and the Sustainable War.
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