I hope that everyone had a safe and happy Halloween, I personally don't celebrate Halloween but I do love candy corn. I know that it's been a while since I wrote a real long blog post it's because of college and me currently looking for employment as well which does not give me much time to write blog posts. I know that people miss reading my blog posts and I appreciate that. Now I'm going to write about the drone strikes in northern Pakistan for the last few years under President Obama. For the record I did vote for President Obama however I never agreed with the drone strike policy in Pakistan. There are plenty of reasons why I don't agree with President Obama especially when it comes to the "signature strikes" if you don't know what "signature strikes" are it's basically a drone strike that the government has no idea who it's hitting instead we are guessing that they are terrorists but they are not sure and most of the people that are killed are civilians in Pakistan. The main reason why I don't agree with the drone strikes in Pakistan or anywhere in the world is because they are counter productive to our interests in the region. Our government claims that they are fighting terrorists with these drone strikes, but instead we are creating more hatred for the United States in the middle east and those people could possibly become terrorist themselves even though that's what the drone strikes are supposed to prevent.
My question is since when the United States government became the terrorists? Our government has been terrorizing these people in Pakistan and we are not killing any terrorists anyway so what is the point of these drone strikes? What's worse is that it's President Obama that has continued President Bush's policy of "signature strikes" in order to fight terrorism and almost all of the Bush polices did not make us safer instead it created more problems for the United States in the middle east and President Obama is continuing Bush policies and to me the drone strike issue is where I'm most disappointed in President Obama. The reason why I'm disappointed is because I expected so much more leadership from President Obama and instead what we got is a man that not only continued Bush policies but expanded them as well and that must be the "change that we can believe in" that Obama was talking about just disappointed.
Now if I was in charge what would I do? Well I would not authorize any drone strikes at all. The reason why is because we are supposed to be better than that and the United States does not kill people just because they look like terrorists, we are supposed to be 100% sure and then once we are sure than we can take action like arresting them and charging them and taking them to trial. That's the American way and we can't be cowards and get away from that just because of the possibility of another terrorist attack on American soil. It's time to get back to our way of life and being fair to pontental suspects around the world no matter what. That's what made us better than everyone else and we lost that standing now because of the polices of President's Obama and Bush and that's disappointing.
