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

[Robert Naiman]

Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Ultimately, it's
realistic if we get a bunch of Members of Congress to call for it.

However, in the interim: the Washington Post editorial board, which as
you know is extremely hawkish, although it is sometimes good on human
rights issues even when it's against the short-term interests of the
Empire (e.g. it's been very critical of the Administration's silence
on human rights abuses in US anti-Iran ally Bahrain), has called for
getting the CIA out of drone strikes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/us-drone-war-demands-accountability/2012/11/01/56627964-2380-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html

Here's Human Rights Watch on the same theme in April:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/04/20/us-transfer-cia-drone-strikes-military

and December:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/19/us-end-cia-drone-attacks

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:
> Bob says it's realistic to get the CIA out of drone strikes.
>
> It's easier to get the country out of 'Salem.
> http://www.tobaccovideos.com/video/4868
> It's pretty well entrenched in the country's but.
>
> block "signature" strikes on people who are not Al Qaeda
> that
>  blatantly violate international law.
>
> Hey there's also that thing, the Constitution...?
>
>
>
>
> On 11/27/12 6:06, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> 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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> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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Robert Naiman
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"But sad to say the chances happen never
You have to reach up high and man is low!
We'd all be glad to live in peace forever
It seems that circumstance won't have it so!"
- "The World Is Mean," Threepenny Opera, Brecht/Blitzstein 1928/1954