[Peace-discuss] A Reformist Strategy to Downsize the Drone Strike Policy

[Carl G. Estabrook]

On matters like this, maybe AWARE should resume writing letters (as AWARE) to our wretched representatives in the new Congress.

Davis, Durbin, Kirk - they're all awful on war and the economy, and we should be telling them so with some regularity. 

Someone want to do a draft along the lines Bob suggests for consideration at Sunday's meeting?

We could discuss it, email the results, & put hard copies in the post on Monday.

Perhaps we should make that a regular weekly action, as part of our role as a local anti-war group.  

A "committee of correspondence."

--CGE

On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> Contrary to conventional wisdom, there are realistic and useful things
> that Congress could do to downsize the drone strike policy: 1) get the
> CIA out of drone strikes; 2) stop "secondary strikes" and attacks on
> rescuers; 3) force the Administration to publicly count civilian
> casualties; 4) force the Administration to compensate civilian
> victims; 5) block "signature" strikes on people who are not Al Qaeda
> that blatantly violate international law.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/a-reformist-strategy-to-d_b_2193610.html
> 
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