I guess it must be effective because the Al-Quida leaders are getting killed off and the strikes are coming down in number.
That’s right, the program’s very success in efficiently eliminating scores of Al Qaeda operatives means there are, quite simply, fewer Al Qaeda targets left to kill.
“The [Obama] administration used the drone strikes aggressively and
killed the top al Qaeda leaders,” an unnamed intelligence official told
Pakistani news site The News International in December 2012. “Now that we have taken out most of these guys, the usage of the drone strikes seems decreasing.”
In Pakistan, it appears so many Al Qaeda targets have been killed,
the focus has quietly shifted to Taliban fighters. Taliban targets
account for more than 50 percent of targeted killings, compared with
just 8 percent for Al Qaeda figures, according to national security analyst Peter Bergen.
They are running out of Al-Quida guys so they are killing Taliban leaders instead. Pretty soon they will just be flying drones around dropping leaflets at this rate. This is one thing I have praised Obama about because I think it is effective and puts the fear of allah into these scumbags.
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