The Paranoid Pentagon

DOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WANT PEACE?

William Pfaff July 2, 2012 - 8:43am

The disclosure that current U.S. drone warfare operations are directed from the presidential office in the White House, with the president himself selecting persons to be assassinated by unmanned aircraft in Muslim countries where the United States is militarily engaged, has ignited protests on moral, legal, political, and strategic grounds. The protests concern the nature of these attacks, which disregard national sovereignties, the laws of war, and the principles of...

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Topics: 
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Election 2012
Foreign Affairs
War and Peace
Columnists
The Middle East

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William Pfaff, a former editor of Commonweal, is political columnist for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. His most recent book is The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy (Walker & Company).

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