Shortcuts and “The Easy Way of War”

            In many instances throughout human history mass killings of people (innocent or not) were done for a certain purpose by the hands psychopaths, Kings, rulers, authoritative figures, or by people who have the belief it’s for the common good. We’ve learn from our past that those methods may not be the correct response to delicate situations such as what’s going on the Middle East, however we still don’t utilize those teachings. Using drones have employed a way for American soldiers to be safe during harmful combatant situations, and initiated a way for death strikes on high profile threats. Those achievements are commendable. However, the deaths of innocent who were there at the wrong place at the wrong time are not because it devalues human lives. The idea of killing 4 to 5 people just for 1 target seems not only murder, but also an in violation of human rights that the USA government holds dear. What was shocking for me is without a positive ID on a target, a kill order can be given where potentially innocent civilians killed. In recent years a stereotype for many Muslims, Arabs, and other Middle Eastern groups have been called “barbaric”, but what the USA government allows these death strikes on significant amount of innocent civilians seems to be more Barbaric.

            What has to change is the communication between USA and Pakistan/Afghanistan; to reduce the use of drones. Technology makes it easy for America to have an upper hand between them and their enemies. However, this shortcut can’t stop the war and cant stop the distrust towards America from other countries. In the Islamic perspective, if one is wrongly killed, the victim’s family has the right for compensation from the accused killer. The fact that American personnel are those who give the order and pulled the trigger cant be accountable, the family of the victim will resist any efforts to support them. In fact, most likely going to create more “terrorist” as retaliation. Understandably the drones are important tool for the army to use for surveillances and combat situations, paraphrasing that they are the only tools they have, it is disturbingly wrong to use drones as a direct approach on War on Terror. It is inaccurate that we Americans have drones as our only tool; we have another tool called our voices.