{"id":15309,"date":"2009-10-28T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15309"},"modified":"2009-10-28T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:07:35","slug":"biden-plan-hits-un-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15309","title":{"rendered":"Biden plan hits UN roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to know who to cheer for in a fight between Joe Biden’s plan for the war in Afghanistan and the United Nations. Biden’s plan is to use Special Forces soldiers and drone aircraft to take out Taliban and al Qaeda leadership, exposing fewer troops to actual combat. But the UN has stepped in and want the Obama Administration to prove how their plan is legal, according to the Associated Press and the Stars and Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s investigator on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, raised the issue of U.S. Predator drones in a report to the General Assembly’s human rights committee and at a news conference afterwards, saying he has become increasingly concerned at the dramatic increase in their use, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan, since June.<\/p>\n

He said the U.S. response – that the Geneva-based council and the General Assembly have no role in relation to killings during an armed conflict – “is simply untenable.”<\/p>\n

“That would remove the great majority of issues that come before these bodies right now,” Alston said. “The onus is really on the government of the United States to reveal more about the ways in which it makes sure that arbitrary executions, extrajudicial executions are not, in fact, being carried out through the use of these weapons.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my opinion, Biden’s plan is unworkable and will only serve to lengthen our stay in the region, but still, the UN seems oblivious to the fact that Taliban and al Qaeda forces who are the target of drones are responsible for thousands of deaths of innocent civilians. That seems a worse record of human rights abuses than blowing up a few terrorist leaders.<\/p>\n

If this was the Bush Administration, I wouldn’t worry about the use of drone aircraft decreasing, but since this is the Obama\/Biden era, those two might be more responsive to UN idiocy. The article doesn’t mention the use of Special Operations troops, but you know that can’t be far away. Of course, the UN seems more preoccupied in blunting US military power than they are in making the world a safer place in which to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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