{"id":2075,"date":"2014-11-26T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2014-11-26T07:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T12:07:21","slug":"u-s-drone-strike-math-41-terrorists-targeted-1147-people-killed-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Drone Strike Math \u2013 41 Terrorists Targeted, 1,147 People Killed | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Drone Strike Math \u2013 41 Terrorists Targeted, 1,147 People Killed | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I haven\u2019t covered the topic of drones very much as of late, it was a core topic at Liberty Blitzkrieg several years ago. The most recent, relevant piece I published on it was during the summer of 2013 and titled:\u00a0The Truth About Drones<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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A lot of Americans have an impression that drone strikes are less damaging to civilian populations than conventional airstrikes. This would be false. In fact, earlier this month I highlighted an article from the Guardian that demonstrated how in reality drone strikes are\u00a010x more likely to harm civilians per incident<\/a>. Now, thanks to a recently leaked document we find that many more civilians including children have been killed in these strikes than many of us would like to admit. In fact, of the 746 people killed in drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2009, an incredible 20% were civilians and 94 (13% of the total) were children.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I strongly believe that the reason so many Americans blindly support the widespread use of drones is due to the mistaken belief that they are precise and result in few civilian casualties. It\u2019s important to get some of the facts out to the public in order to have a more informed debate on the matter.<\/p>\n

In the latest news, the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Drone Strike Math \u2013 41 Terrorists Targeted, 1,147 People Killed | Liberty Blitzkrieg. While I haven\u2019t covered the topic of drones very much as of late, it was a core topic at Liberty Blitzkrieg several years ago. The most recent, relevant piece I published on it was during the summer of 2013 and titled:\u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1007,1008,1437,1436],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-drones","tag-uav","tag-unmanned-aerial-vehicle","tag-us-drone-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}