Argumentative Essay On Drones

Drones: Flying Terror

Are drones a good machine to use in warfare? Drones are unpiloted armed machines, controlled by experts (usually soldiers) thousands of miles away. While people might believe that the use of drone in war will benefit the United States and other countries, they are actually more harmful to people, both mentally and physically. By defining the necessity of people the recognize the harms of drones in people, by refuting counter arguments of those who believe the use of drones is beneficial, and by presenting information and arguments from documents, it will be obvious from the information presented that drones are not the right way to go, and they will be harmful instead of beneficial for people.

Drones have been used in

war for years, and all these years, these machines have been scaring people, killing innocents, and putting families and people in danger. Imagine being a kid, scared to go to school or even leave the house in fear of getting attacked by a drone, as stated, “Their way of life is collapsing: kids are too terrified to go to school, adults are afraid to attend weddings, funerals, business meetings, or anything that involves gathering in groups.” (Source K) These drones are putting the lives of many children in danger, mistakes can be made by every human, and the people who are controlling these machines can make one of those and kill many innocent people, for example, “...on the afternoon of April 3 of last year. A curious-looking airplane slammed into the ground next to an elementary school.” (Source A) Fortunately, there was no school that day, but if the children had school that day, imagine how many children would have been killed, just by a single mistake in one of these machines. People are enraged with these machines being used, “We don’t want the government hovering over our cities and town 24/7 and tracking everywhere that everyone goes...” (Source A) As stated in this document, people cannot have a good life, hearing the buzzing of drones over their heads all day, every single day. The government is disturbing the lives of these people.
Many people can argue that the use of drones in warfare will be beneficial for the communities, and every person in general, but in reality, these drones have been harmful for the people.

One of the reasons the government is using drones instead of other methods, is because they are cheap. The government prefers to use these cheaper machines in war, traumatizing people all around the world, not just in the attacked areas, scaring children to the point where they do not want to leave the house in fear, rather than using other methods of war. Other people believe these drones will save the lives of innocent people and civilians, as stated in source A “A drone strike can kill a person in one room of a house and spare the lives of people in other rooms. Their precision means there's less of a chance of innocent civilians being killed.” This is not all true though, even though these machines are really accurate, many civilians and innocent people have been killed by drones, for example, “A new report from British human rights group Reprieve suggests that, based on available evidence, as many as 1,147 people in Yemen and Pakistan, including children, were killed in the U.S. drone strikes…” (Source I) Source K also states that “According to a meta-study of drone strikes, between 8 to 17% of all people killed in drone strikes are civilians.” As one can see from this information, drones are not as good as people believe they are, they can be worse than other methods of

warfare.
Drones have been used by the United States, mainly to decrease the number of terrorists. This has not been working as they thought it would, “The number of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) core members grew from 300 in 2009 (When US drone strikes resumed after seven-year hiatus) to 700 in 2012, resulting in an exponential increase in the number of terrorist attacks in the region.” (Source K) As stated by this document, instead of decreasing the number of terrorists, it is increasing due to these drone strikes. If it is terrifying for the people in the United States, imagine living in a place that has been attacked by drones. The hatred on Americans is increasing also, as stated by The Week.com, “America’s drone warfare has traumatized whole areas of Pakistan and Yemen, probably feeding anti-American fervor and possibly boosting terrorist recruitment efforts.” (Source I) The Government is making the wrong decision by using drones in warfare. Many countries around the world do not agree with the use of these machines, on the other hand, more than half of the american population agrees on the use of these killing machines “...making the U.S. just one of three countries (out of 44 surveyed) with majority support for drone strikes…” (Source I) Another example showing this information would be the chart in source G, this chart shows how out of 20 countries, the U.S. is the only one in which the majority of the people agree to use these machines.
To conclude, the use of these machines has to stop. The government is destroying families, killing innocent people, making people stay at home in fear of getting attacked by one of these machines, they are destroying their lives. Everyone in the U.S. has to get together to protect their rights, people cannot be observed by machines every single day, people are suffering from the buzzing of the drones. Imagine waking up, hearing the buzzing of a killing machine on top of your house, wanting to stay inside in fear that machine can do something to one of the people in the house. Drones are causing more harm than benefits, this is not what we want.