Drone Striking Is Effective

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There are many things in the world that we as humans do not like or understand. We do not understand why somethings happen or even exist, but they are there. One of the terrible things in our daily lives include terrorists. We don't normally understand their reasoning's, but they still happen and there is nothing we can do about it...or is there. Yes there is, and the "tool" that has been made for our seeking, and tracking of terrorist is called drone striking. Drone striking is an effective way of eliminating terrorists because of minimal U.S. losses, the physical act of drone striking, and the aftermath of drone striking. My three main objectives are American Safety, the act of Drone Striking, and the aftermath of Drone Striking. American …show more content…

This can lower military costs that can go towards other parts of our nation for example education, or paying of the billions of dollars owed in debts. The budgeted price was 2.9 billion total for drone striking, and the U.S. is spending roughly $8 million per day on military to supply the military with the jobs that a drone strike can do. This is similar to the 13-year war with Afghanistan, so paying the military for 13 years would equal to $37,960,000,000 instead of the $8,000,000(Freidman). There is one obvious choice to save money and that would be drone striking. There is also an issue of civilian deaths. There have been nearly 2,500 killed people in Pakistan, about 450 civilians died. That’s roughly 17 percent of them civilians (Saletan). If you look in the big picture 17% is not nearly as terrible as it could be. What would be the solution if drone strikes were eliminated, The only example I can think of is going back to nuclear bombing and bombing cities and not being as accurate? In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were upwards of 100,000 civilian deaths, so the number is miniscule compared to a previous bombing battle that we ,the United States of America, have fought in. The Aftermath of Drone Striking is far less than of an atomic bomb. There is very limited surrounding damage except for the actual building that is being targeted. This lets the urban warfare come more at ease because there will be less catastrophic damage

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