Ambiguous drone policies cast doubt on Obama's lofty pledges

Ambiguous drone policies cast doubt on Obama's lofty pledges

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

June 1, 2013

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/ambiguous-drone-policies-cast-doubt-on-obamas-lofty-pledges#ixzz2V9pI5nJY


It was a “season of fear,” he said. Government trimming facts and evidence “to fit ideological predispositions”; making “decisions based on fear rather than foresight; setting aside principles “as luxuries that we could no longer afford”. “In other words,” he concluded, “we went off course”.