Here's a little Democracy coming your way......

[unhappycamper]

An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan. In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama's national security strategy has included the increased use of UAVs to target wanted terrorists and Taliban leaders in Pakistan.


Obama strategy widens assault on terrorists
By Matt Apuzzo - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 12, 2010 7:08:11 EST

WASHINGTON — In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama’s national security team singled out one man from its list of most-wanted terrorists, Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani Taliban. He was to be eliminated.

Mehsud was Pakistan’s public enemy No. 1 and its most feared militant, responsible for a string of bombings and assassination attempts. But while Mehsud carried out strikes against U.S. forces overseas and had a $5 million bounty on his head, he had never been the top priority for U.S. airstrikes, something that at times rankled Pakistan.

“The decision was made to find him, to get him and to kill him,” a senior U.S. intelligence official said, recalling weeks and months of “very tedious, painstaking focus” before an unmanned CIA aircraft killed Mehsud in August at his father-in-law’s house near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

It was not the first airstrike on Obama’s watch, but it marked the first major victory in his war on terrorism, a campaign the administration believes can be waged even more aggressively than its predecessor’s. Long before he went on the defensive in Washington for his handling of the failed Christmas Day airline bombing, Obama had widened the list of U.S. targets abroad and stepped up the pace of airstrikes.

Advances in spy plane technology have made that easier, as has an ever-improving spy network that helped locate Mehsud and other terrorists. These would have been available to any new president. But Obama’s counterterrorism campaign also relies on two sharp reversals from his predecessor, both of which were political gambles at home.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/02/ap_obama_terrorism_strategy_021210/

[DrDan]

1. I have often thought that one of the primary reasons we are so diligent in war-involvement

is to perfect our weapons.

This is a perfect example. Get pilots out of the cockpits via technology.

[igfoth]

2. Democracy via the barrel of a gun

Always works out so well!

[asdjrocky]

3. All we are saying...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk

[Blue Owl]

4. unmanned, remote-controlled democracy

That's about what it's becoming.