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Of the choices discussed in class, I think that it is the best option for a couple of reasons: It regulates drone strikes better, doesn’t keep info away from citizens, makes a check against the president doing unauthorized drone strikes, it allows government officials to make public decisions on drone strikes.
Pakistan: Estimated 3,213 people have died (2004-2013). Only 1.6% have been high profile terrorists, with 5.4% children, and 16.7% children (with others making up 76.3%) being accidentally shot down because of drone strikes. Only a small percentage that was meant to be hit were actually hit. This is a high failure rate: It failed 98.4% of the time to hit the targets. Many of these strikes were signature strikes, racially profiling people based on appearance, which killed more innocent people following their religion than Islamic terrorists. Have had 337 drone strikes from 2004 to 2013. According to the U.S., the amount of militants killed (which the U.S. is known to exaggerate) is 2,649 out of 3,729 people. That accuracy, even when using the government’s estimates, is shocking. More than 1/3 of the dead are innocent
Afghanistan: Also used signature strikes, and ended up killing a marine and navy medic. There have been 333 reported drone strikes in 2012, and the amounts of drone strikes since then have greatly increased. These drones strikes kill many people, and the amount of drone strikes in Afghanistan in one year has been greater than the number of drone strikes in Pakistan from 2004-2012. With increasing controversy, the U.S. military gave up giving out information about Afghan drone strikes on March of 2013.A study conducted a U.S. military advisor found that drones killed more civilians in Afghanistan than I did...

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