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

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Shall Satan cast out Satan?

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Also how could you know for sure if you got the CIA out?

(I watched "Total Recall" and "Looper" back to back the other night).




On 11/27/12 6:41, Robert Naiman wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy
>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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