Risk-Free and Above the Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare -- Rick Rozoff, ScoopLast week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia.
The strike was the first acknowledged Pentagon military attack inside the Horn of Africa nation since a helicopter raid staged by commandos in 2009 and the first use of an American drone to conduct a missile strike there. Drones had earlier been used in the country in their original capacity, for surveillance, including identifying targets for bomb and missile attacks, one being shot down in October of 2009. But as Britain’s The Guardian reported on July 30, the strike in Somalia marked “the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country,” as the remote-controlled aircraft have already been employed to deadly effect in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and most recently Libya.
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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS
US moves toward Afghan guerrilla war -- Brian M Downing, Asia Times
U.S. decision to withhold military aid to Pakistan could backfire -- Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Watch for a provocation from north Korea -- Michael Green, Joong Ang Daily
'A dream come true' as South Sudan launches new nation -- Maggie Fick, Christian Science Monitor
How revolutionary is Egypt's post-revolution foreign policy? -- Ty McCormick, Passport/Foreign Policy
Who is running Yemen? -- Jeb Boone, Foreign Policy
Gen. Tso’s Default Chicken -- David Sanger, New York Times
Chinese leadership: The challenge in 2012 -- Kerry Brown, East Asia Forum
A Somali terrorism suspect’s case is right for federal court -- Washington Post editorial
Response to Embassy Attack In Syria Will Be Crucial -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
If Rupert Murdoch is too powerful, then so is the BBC -- Ed West, BBC
A World Food Crisis? -- S. Fred Singer, American Thinker
The Global Temper Tantrum: Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. -- Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
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