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The Pros And Cons Of Drone Strikes

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Drone make America less safe “Evil comes on many colors” Our government is going out of hand with these drone strikes, killing many innocent civilians. Even though drone strikes puts America less safe, government should not use drone strikes because is creating a culture of fear and hatred and many innocent people are killed. Drone strikes puts America less safe “It’s true that when there’s a drone attack the terrorist are killed… But 500 or 5000 more people rise against it and more terrorism occurs.” Our president still don’t get the fact that there killing families even without the intentions. That is why terrorism comes in, meaning they want revenge towards the U.S... Another example that shows that drone strikes puts America less safe is the day September 11, 2001. Where terrorist hijacked two planes and crashed it into the World Trade Center in New York. Many of our people died in the incident and its surroundings. …show more content…

Government may think that they are helping our people by not sending them out there to war. But may not think either to what happens every time they drone strike places. Like Pakistan and Yemen, “Drones strikes causing more and more (people) to hate America and join radical militants; they are not driven by ideology but rather by a sense of revenge and despair.” Another example that shows that is creating a culture of fear and hatred is in other words, when we send drones to kill terrorists, we actually radicalize people who otherwise had no ill will toward our country. Our drone policy is making terrorist out of ordinary

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