Another drone attack on Pakistan is suspected to be by the U.S. The drone attack killed eight people. The attack took place in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, and the people killed were supposedly militants who posed a threat against foreign forces in Afghanistan; thought the actual identities of these people are unknown. The militant group, Hafiz Gul Bahadur (who regularly attacks NATO troops), dominates the area. There were two drone attacks in this whole attack. The first, firing two drone missiles at some cars in the northwestern Waziristan tribal area, in an Afghan refugee camp. Officials said that this attack killed six people since the cars were close to houses and they both were destroyed. Just minutes later, another drone killed two more people, just outside the camp on a river bank, the officials said.
These attacks are killing many officials. I read on in the article to see that the U.S. does not acknowledge the drone attacks publicly, or they do so rarely. However, U.S. officials have said privately that they have killed many al-Queda and Taliban commanders. This shows that the U.S. is making progress in these drone attacks.
At the same time, one could see some similarity to some domination. We went over domination in class and it shows that the “bigger” nation dominating over the “smaller” nation. The negative side to these drone attacks is that the U.S. could hammer and hammer these terrorist groups to a point of desperation, and that will be when this mess overseas will get really bad.
2 comments:
Although these drone attacks are killing many of the officials, it is still horrible. It is hard to believe that these horrible killings are some how helping us make progress. I agree with you that the negative affects could make the terrorist groups get too desperate and cause them to make a real mess. I hope that these drone attacks continue to work, without the price of more American deaths.
I agree, but in conflicts like this, these kinds of attacks, though they may be horrific, are necessary. There is no diplomatic solution with the terrorist groups. I just hope that these drone attacks will push them to a point, not of desperation to make a real mess, but to give in; though that is very unlikely.
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