Terrorism is currently a plague causing extreme amounts problems throughout the world, but not a single country seems to have an answer yet. A common, and controversial, technique to battle terrorism is the use of drones, but drones also seem to be the best option to combat terrorism. Drones allow the slaughter of terrorists without putting boots on the ground and American lives in danger. Drones can be controlled from continents away and have a decently high rate of success. These allow for pinpoint accuracy and can be flown far above the ground avoiding radar detection. While terrorism must be brought to an end, the American people would have to be the first thought in the mind of the government. While most terrorism is occurring over seas, there is no reason to involve the American military personnel because the death toll has already surpassed any acceptable numbers in the war on terror and the war for freedom for all countries. …show more content…
There is a high percentage of civilian casualties involved in the use of drones. While this is not a premium circumstance, sometimes there are no ways around such casualties. It truly is a shame and is unavoidable in many cases. When troops are boots on the ground to combat terrorism they will often suffer casualties and also cause civilian casualties within these compounds. Ergo, the drones are ultimately avoiding more causalities than necessary. That is why drones are the most efficient way to combat terrorism throughout the
The drones which include cameras can come into citizen’s property as close as their yard, without having a
The causes and effects of 9/11 on America and its people On september 11th 2001, I was in preschool when the first and second plane hit. My dad was at work, and my mom was on the way to drop off my sister at her school. Now the question is, where were you? The hijackings
Our Innocent Lives At Stake A drone strike can kill a person in one room of a house, also people in the room next door, to even across the street like a school. There has been cases where the drones have had civilians attacked while along the intended target. These were all unplanned deaths, all innocent deaths. I oppose the use of drones in warfare. From all the drone strikes killing innocent people or putting their lives at stake and ours, is a horrendous movement, that’s why in my opinion I think we shouldn’t have drones.
The Global War on Terror was the main conflict the United States was involved in between 2001-2014. Most of the news coverage covered the ground war and the pursuit of the ever elusive Osama bin Laden. There was little coverage of the part the United States Air Force played in this war. The extent of coverage would be the occasional, airstrike that took out a high value target. The lack of media coverage made it seem as if the United States Air Force had a minuscule role in the war on terror.
Drones kill fewer civilians than any other military weapon but drone strikes target individuals who may not be terrorists or enemy combatants and drone strikes mostly kill low-value targets who are not significant threats to US safety and security. Even with the copious amounts of surveillance conducted on these individuals that are possibly terrotists, the drone attacks on them do not seem justified because of the lack of physical evidence that these individuals were a threat to the United states or to any country. Although drone strikes are legal in the United States and are subject to a strict review process and congressional oversight, drone strikes violate international law. Massive surveillance industrial complex post 9/11, has had many negative and positive effects through out the past decade. The meaning of our laws and policies have not been able to keep pace with the advances in technology or the development of surveillance as a whole.
Domestic militarized drones have the potential to be disastrous for the civil liberties of American citizens. Many Americans agree with this, as stated in Evan Slinger’s article on Christian Science Monitor, “.... domestic drone surveillance might erode civil liberties, and degrade the political fabric of the United States. To some extent the American public knows this is the case and is invested in moving forward carefully.” America’s citizens have already witnessed first-hand how there are parts of our government that have overstepped their boundaries by engaging in surveillance of the domestic population. America needs to cut back on their monitoring of citizens because with the current Status Quo, American citizens have no privacy
Rough Draft: After the 9/11 attack many Americans have come to realize what terrorism really is, but for the kids that 9/11 was history to here you go. Terrorism today is the use of violence usually against other countries aimed towards politics. Targeting terrorist leaders might not make much difference, but it is cheap, it is low risk for the United States (Fisher,par.18). According to Max Fisher’s article going after terrorist leaders isn’t always the best, well the U.S. did that for the 9/11 attack, we ended up killing Osama Bin Laden the man who planned 9/11 out. Terrorist groups like the Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Jihadist are a threat to mankind.
He argues that the use of drones overseas poses no threat to U.S. forces and that the attacks produce fewer casualties than other alternative fighting methods that are currently used. Byman claims that the drone strikes are very effective at eliminating threats overseas and
A rising contempt for America makes it easier for terrorists to find new recruits to use against American armies. In fact, Stern says, “The use of drones to target suspected al Qaeda operatives in Yemen has been correlated with a rapid growth in membership in the group’s Yemen-based affiliate” (“Obama And Terrorism”, 3). The use of drones mainly end with a continuous circle of death and
Many issues are going on that needs to be fixed by the upcoming president. That is one reason we need to make sure we become educated about social issues when elected our next president. It is hard to choose just one social issue that needs to be changed but if I have to pick on it would be terrorism. Terrorism is “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.” (Dictionary)
Drones are now capable of spying on people and watching them, just as what happened in Kentucky. How do we know that the government will not use them to keep an eye on
We have learned that it is not possible to prevent terrorist attacks, completely. [5]. Although, DHS, Homeland Security and the many agencies that have come together nationally and worldwide to end terrorism, work to mitigate threat of terrorism, in response and defense, there may never be a 100% certainty that an attack will not happen. And, it is important to understand that threats to the security of the nation do not stop at just
Just as the atomic bomb caused immense destruction and loss of life, drone strikes often result in the deaths of innocent civilians. According to a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 2004 and 2019, US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia killed between 8,500 and 12,000 people, including 800-1,700 civilians. The use of drones violates international law and the principles of just warfare as their use often results in civilian deaths. Another modernday connnection how nucleur weapons still expist. Des[ite internal efforts to prevent proliferation of nucleur weapons, several countires still possess them, incluseign the US, Russia, Chinca, France, Pakistan, and North Korea.
When we think about drone or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), first thing comes to our mind is; frightening, alien looking unmanned aircraft that has been involved with so many bombings and targeted killings. In “Drone Home: What Happens When Drones Return to America”, from Time, Lev Grossman wrote drones are dreaded all around the globe, and possibly they have gotten this fear through the United States Military. Drone technology has been greatly improved last decade, now third of entire Air Force’s fleet is unmanned. U.S Government is sending drones to many war zones to eliminate high-ranking enemies or do surveillance successfully. Even though this rapidly growing technology is changing our perspective of war, it also changing our everyday life drastically to help our community.
Qaddafi and Anwar are just two examples that drones have helped for the better of the U.S. In August 2009 Taliban leader Baltullah Mehsud’s death was announced, a missile shot from an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) was responsible. Six years later, the U.S. Air Force is saying that the unmanned combat missions have increased by 600%. To protect human lives, Cummings said, “I would rather send a bunch of robots to do a mine-sweeping mission, possibly with human oversight several miles away” (Tucker,