Werken drones? (4)

Als de resultaten van het drone-programma van het Amerikaanse leger en de CIA zo gemengd zijn, waarom gaan ze er dan toch mee door?

Omdat ze niet anders kunnen. Na een analyse van de effectiviteit van drones concludeert het Amerikaanse blad Foreign Policy:

“We must not pretend the killings are anything but a flawed short-term expedient that at best reduces the al Qaeda threat — but by no means eliminates it. Even as U.S. strikes have increased, Pakistan has suffered staggering levels of terrorism as groups with few or limited links to al Qaeda have joined the fray. Al Qaeda itself can also still carry out attacks, including ones outside Pakistan in Europe and even the United States.”

“Thanks to the drone strikes, they are just harder to pull off. The real answer to halting al Qaeda’s activity in Pakistan will be the long-term support of Pakistan’s counterinsurgency efforts. While this process unfolds, targeted killings are one of America’s few options left.”