Ode To A Drone Analysis

The Meaning of Ode to a Drone

“Hell-raiser, razor-feathered risers, windhover over Peshawar,”(Majmudar Lines 1-3) That was the first stanza of the poem “Ode to a Drone” by Amit Majmudar. This poem is written by a Muslim American who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. The first stanza is the beginning to an ode to a drone, but immediately, you know he is not praising the drone for being powerful, he is explaining how it is unnecessarily destructive. A drone is an unmanned flying vehicle that shoots missiles or drops bombs on targets in modern warfare. Modern warfare today is taking place in the Middle East which is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt. Many terrorist groups such as ISIS, which is the largest threat right now.

They believe in Islam and establishing a caliphate. A caliphate is a radical extremist state, with a supreme ruler. Their leader, who is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sees himself as the caliph, or ruler. ISIS has been killing and executioning a colossal number of Innocent people who did not do anything wrong to them. “At least 18,802 civilians have been killed in Iraq in ISIS-linked violence in under two years.”(ISIS Death Toll: 18,800 Killed in Iraq in 2 Years, January 2016) That is many lives of people who did not do anything wrong, they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. 18,802 people, just in Iraq. They have also killed many people all over Europe and the United States. That is unacceptable, they need to be stopped. I believe drones might be a vital object in the process of putting an end to Terrorism.
Amit Majmudar is saying people who use these drones are idiotic scientists who are fools of God,”But fuel and bombs, fool of God, Savage Idiot savant”(Majmudar Lines 13-15) A savant is a distinguished scientist. It is plain and simple to easily pick out Amit’s point of view. He thinks these drones are terrible and killing many innocent people. In reality, these people are not innocent, they are terrorists, and they need to be stopped immediately. They are doing things that easily identify them as enemies to everyone but themselves. If you think about it, drones substitute for manned aircrafts which takes death out of the equation for the people using the drones. So, if the United States, and our allies use them we will have less deaths for people who actually deserve to live.
I can see how Amit hates these drones because they do kill people, those people might be Amit's family members or friends.

It is a fact that he is the son of immigrants who traveled to the United States to have a better life, and I am glad they did because it is more safe here than the Middle East. There are still some minor and major acts of terrorism that still happen in the United States of America, but it is a number far less of the ones taking place in the Middle East. Amit is a citizen of the United States, so that means we protect him as a country, if he was a citizen of Iraq, he could easily be part of the increasing number of 18,802 civilians that have been killed in Iraq in ISIS-linked violence in under two years. “ISIS lacks any sophisticated air defense system or any other way to challenge unmanned air supremacy, dozens of armed drones could enter the air space and fire weaponry but low enough for precision target identification and strike.” (How America’s Drones Can Defeat ISIS by Defense One) This means drones can easily get the job done to shrink down this terrorist state. That easily proves Amit’s biased opinion of drones wrong. I do not think he realizes that drones are useful and used with precision and strategy, we do not use them because we have a “trigger-finger gamer’s thumb.” (Lines

17-18)
As of now, it is very easy for disguised terrorists to enter our beloved country. President Obama has a very open foreign policy that allows basically anyone into our country if their records are “good.” Good meaning that if they have a family, being a child, or having no criminal records means that you are welcome into our country. To me this is still wrong and it is illegal, if you want to become a United States citizen you should have a passport or green card first and enter the country and try to become a citizen legally. The United States has a terrible refuge program as well in the past seven years, the United States has added around 55,000-80,000 per year. Most of the refuges nowadays are from the Middle East due to the corruption taking place there, seeing those stats makes me feel unsafe living in my own country. Even know those people are leaving their country because of the terrorism taking place there, that does not mean that all of them aren’t linked to terrorist groups. I am not saying they are all terrorists but I know not all of them are clean, and that is not good for our country's safety. When refugees arrive into the United States, they are provided for food, housing, clothing, employment counseling, medical care, and other necessities. I also think this is unacceptable because we are wasting money on a bunch of people that should not even be allowed in our country. “In January 2014, communities across America identified 49,933 homeless veterans during point-in-time counts, which represents eight point six percent of the total homeless population.” That is really unbelievable, those are homeless Americans who fought for our country, and we still manage to let refugees into our country and give them care for everything when almost fifty thousand American veterans are homeless.
This is all ISIS’s fault because they made the Middle East corrupt which sends us refugees that we take care of for some reason when there are almost fifty thousand American veterans who are homeless and aren’t given the attention that a foreigner is receiving. To help out the citizens of the United States, both the ones who went to war and the ones who didn’t, drones can easily suppress terroristic activities in our country, Europe, and in the Middle East as well. An “Ode to A Drone” by Amit Majmudar is just his personal opinion that I do not agree with, I do not think drones are “hellraisers,” I think they are American savers.

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