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Thursday, November 8, 2012

4 More Drones! Robot Attacks Are on Deck for Obama's Next Term


  Only 4? For now. This is sure to to become much more in the coming days and months as he settles in for another term.

4 More Drones! Robot Attacks Are on Deck for Obama's Next Term

Published on Wired Top Stories | shared via feedly mobile

When Barack Obama took office, drone strikes were a once-in-a-while thing. Now, they're the centerpiece of a global U.S. counterterrorism campaign. Obama institutionalized the strikes to the point where he could hand off to the next president an efficient bureaucratic process for delivering death-by-robot practically on autopilot. Only now he's the next president. Welcome to Obama's second-term agenda for dealing with the world. As the Ramones sang: second verse, same as the first.