Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt.
Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired admiral and former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair — the man who was, until recently, nominally in charge of the entire American effort to find, track, and take out terrorists. Now, he’s calling for that campaign to be reconsidered, and possibly even junked.
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, Anti-War, grassroots democracy, News, nonviolence, politics, US Politics Tagged: | Al-Qaeda, Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence, Osama bin Laden, Somalia, War in North-West Pakistan, Yemen
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