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In his much awaited speech on war on terror, President Barack Obama made an attempt to explain the importance of US-led drone attacks while also acknowledging that constant expansion of the war zones and drone-targets should be reevaluated on critical grounds.
Obama accepted that it is time for the US to reassess the counterterrorism policies deployed after the September 11 attacks in order to deal with the threats posed by the new era. He said that it is not a viable decision to war with radicals rising from every part of the world, be it in Pakistan or Arab Spring nations or Somalia.
“A perpetual war — through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments — will prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways… We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us,” Obama said.
Nevertheless, the American President evidently defended the drone war and termed it as legit and fair. He called it the best tool to be used in the counterterrorism plots. However, he went smooth on the topic by acknowledging the need of using the tool with more precision to diminish collateral damage.
“To say a military tactic (drones) is legal, or even effective, is not to say it is wise or moral in every instance,” he remarked.
Obama also implied that some fresh measures will be taken to shut down the Guantanamo Bay facility for terror suspects in Cuba. He referred to the detention facility as harmful to US interests, too expensive and a relic of a past age of counterterrorism tactics.
“I know the politics are hard. But history will cast a harsh judgment on this aspect of our fight against terrorism and those of us who fail to end it,” Obama said.
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