3% hit rate???!!! I disbelieve. Please provide a link.
Pardon me, I was quoting the state from memory. I can't remember where I originally read it, so here is a figure from
a study conducted by Stanford and NYU.
"[P]ublicly available evidence that the strikes have made the US safer overall is ambiguous at best. The strikes have certainly killed alleged combatants and disrupted armed actor networks. However, serious concerns about the efficacy and counter-productive nature of drone strikes have been raised. The number of “high-level” targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low—estimated at just 2%."
So, the hit rate of high level targets is actually lower. The point is that, as awful as Bush's foreign policy was, Obama's is actually worst - he is more of a warmonger than Bush ever was. Noam Chomsky, of all people, agrees with me.
He bombed Yemen and lied about it! And, he has drug us into even more wars and foreign occupations than Bush ever did (with plans to extend these ‘special operations forces’ into 60 to 75 more countries).
"Our government made a series of hasty decisions, in a poorly planned haphazard approach; too often we set those principles aside as luxuries we could no longer afford. Our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight. The decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for 'fighting terrorism' that was neither effective nor sustainable."– Barack Obama from a 2009 speech made in the Federal Archives.
In that same speech, literally sentences later, he proclaims new provisions he has added to the patriot act. Among these new provisions was something called “Prolonged Detention”, which is, essentially, preventative incarceration. No trial, no charges, no conviction, and no sentencing will be necessary to hold U.S. citizens. No bail will be posted and there is no limit to how long or for what reason you may be held. We expected this from Bush, but even he only applied this reasoning to non-citizens, outside of U.S. borders. Even he did not go this far.
He, like Bush, signed on to warrantless wiretapping, renditioning, the patriot act, prison abuse, detention without trial, violations of Habeus Corpus, and invasive airport security measures. He had this to say before not only extending the patriot act in length, but also breadth: "It's an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat."
And we actually waste time voting for these thugs.