The Washington Post reports that the Obama Administration has a long term view of their use of drones and their “kill list” – long term in that they plan to continue it for about ten years. <\/p>\n
Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us,\u201d a senior administration official said. \u201cIt\u2019s a necessary part of what we do. .?.?. We\u2019re not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of everybody holding hands and saying, \u2018We love America.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism. Targeting lists that were regarded as finite emergency measures after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are now fixtures of the national security apparatus. The rosters expand and contract with the pace of drone strikes but never go to zero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, they have to admit that targeting terrorists and killing them from thousands of miles away from the potential targets isn’t really working. But like with everything else related to liberalism, that’s no need to forecast an end to it. This administration wasn’t willing to commit the number of troops that the CIA and the generals called for in 2009 and they thought Joe Bite-Me Biden was their strategic genius, so now the Nobel Peace Prize president is looking at a war with no end in sight and a trail of lawyers that extends from here to Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"