Nobile Corey is a former state department official he was actually
deputy chief of mission in Yemen from 2004 to 2007 for us
well he's not with the state department anymore he says that the
his old colleagues at the state department might not be too happy about
what he's about the saint
but he said it anyway cuz it's right he said drone strikes they got a few bad
guys to be sure
but they also kill a large number innocent civilians given Yemen's
tribal structure the US generates roughly forty
this sixty new enemies for
every AQ AP that's the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
operative killed by drones faces look of course not a scientific method
I'm doing based on my experience and the fact that I have a
at my disposal and my best guess based on what we've seen in the past and based
on how
Yemen's tribal structure works is that for
every time you want to use drone strikes Ukrainian port is sixty people who were
then
going to fight us it almost makes it seem as if the strong tracer
counterproductive
because of a national so while you know a good the bad guys there were gonna do
create forty to sixty more bad guys
you know in your lingo after every single bombing
is it possible that the military industrial complex
which stands to make a tremendous amount of money from while in hostilities
throughout the world
wouldn't mind something counterproductive that we created forty
to sixty new enemies
every time we did a drone strike that that just means more business for them
now I don't necessarily be the present Obama thinks that way
but he's brought in a meetings where the top generals and CIA operatives who are
all looking forward to million-dollar contracts or hundreds of thousand
dollars
where the contract with those same defense contractors as soon as they
retire come into the room in telepresence of
national security national security
we have to do the strike and the case the Cygnus tracks we don't know who they
are but we have to do that
the case the double tap see if they might be first responders trying to help
people
but we have to do it it might be a funeral might be a wedding but we have
to do it
but it turns out it is counterproductive now course if
this is the only person saying it's just one government official from the United
States
you might say well that's his opinion but of course we've covered this
over and over again that is their opinion while most every expert
certainly on Yemen and it's not a very different scenario in northern Pakistan
spree in northern Pakistan by the way
another story out today in washington Post saying that it turns out according
to
classified cables the governor Pakistan knew all about the drone strikes
all along to which we say ok all purpose we knew they knew
and in fact they would allow the CIA to use
Pakistani airfields and be any but what I found really interesting the midst
that washington Post story
is an explanation that sometimes
we did drone strikes to help out the pakistanis
this at like kind of a return favor hey thanks for
letters to all these drone strikes so we kill someone your own I think about that
for a sec
we're told that every one of these traces done because oven
imminent threat to the United States did they tell you
that sometimes that was the case at all we were just killing
though political enemies a foreign governments
remember pack several longtime headed by
gentleman sharp who got got the power through a coup
and was basically a dictator any in Yemen we also use drone strikes
and in Yemen for a long time a dictator that had been in power for decades
and we're killing his political opponents form possibly
now we know about Pakistan you think they didn't do it in Yemen to
but were told no no no every drone strike is so precise
with a guy who's just about to attack the United States of America
nonsense