Greenwald: How extremism is normalized: Obama's Radical Interpretation of The Bill of Rights

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27. which is the worst of it

but it also appears to be counter-productive given the civilian losses, which will likely create more than they ever kill that way

US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter. — File Photo by Reuters
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The outgoing US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron P. Munter, found the drone strike-driven American policy unacceptable and complained to his colleagues that “he didn’t realise his main job was to kill people”, a colleague told The New York Times.

An extensive report in Tuesday’s newspaper says that President Barack Obama has taken personal responsibility for drone attacks. He approves every name on the target list, reviewing their biographies and the evidence against them, and then authorises “lethal action without hand-wringing”.

The report says that Mr Obama’s focus on drone strikes has made it impossible to forge the new relationship with the Muslim world that he promised in his June 2009 speech in Cairo.

http://dawn.com/2012/05/30/munter-found-drone-strikes-unacceptable/