Trump to out-Obama Obama on drone strikes

[kallend 2,175]

So all the Obama haters who wrote posts critical of Obama's drone strikes (you know who you are, or if you forgot a simple search will find you - I already did), what do you think of Trump's latest?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[normiss 905]

Reuters, non-subscriber log-in version

[billvon 3,131]

I liked this section:
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"Some of the Obama administration rules were getting in the way of good strikes," said one U.S. official briefed on the matter.

The Obama administration put in place a rule that no drone strike could take place outside a war zone unless there was a "near certainty" that no civilian would be harmed. Obama also put the White House in the decision loop on most strikes against high-value targets. And, outside a war zone, the military or the CIA had to show that the target posed an imminent threat to the United States.

These and other rules — along with a general policy preference by Obama — led to a dramatic drop in drone strikes toward the end of the Obama presidency.
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Less than a year ago: "Obama can kill Americans at will with drones but waterboarding is not allowed—only in America!"

[kallend 2,175]

normiss

Reuters, non-subscriber log-in version

Hmmm - I'm not a subscriber but the original link works for me.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.