There is already blowback for this.
Egypt got taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Libya is now run by Islamic Extremists.
There is a full scale civil war going on in Yemen against a corrupt dictator supported by the US.
The risk of a major terrorist strike against America or Americans increases with every civilian killed.
This is indiscriminate murder pure and simple.
This is the article about the number of killings in Pakistan from drone strikes so far this year - 6 a day
"The sixth U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2013 has killed at least eight people, as if to announce the impending arrival at the CIA of the drone campaign’s chief advocate.
About 19 miles east of Mirin Shah, the main city in the tribal province of North Waziristan, at least one missile fired by a U.S. Predator or Reaper hit a compound Monday night, killing an alleged, unnamed “foreign tactical trainer” for al-Qaida, according to Pakistani intelligence sources talking to Reuters. Another strike hit the nearby village of Eissu Khel, the Long War Journal reports. In addition to the alleged al-Qaida member, at least seven others were killed and three more were injured.
While the statistical sample is small, it’s starting to sound like the drone campaign over Pakistan is ticking back up after a recent decline. A trio of drone-fired missile strikes between Wednesday and Thursday killed a Pakistani Taliban commander and at least 19 others. Another on Sunday reportedly killed another 17 people, bringing the estimated death toll in this young year to 35.
The U.S. launched 43 drone strikes in Pakistan in 2012, according to the tally kept by the New America Foundation, reflecting a two-year downward trend from 2010′s high of 122 strikes. The average time in between strikes last year was 7.7 days. But eight days into 2013, there have already been six deadly drone strikes, for reasons that remain unclear. It’s worth noting that senior Obama administration officials recently reversed their earlier rhetoric that the U.S. was on the verge of defeating al-Qaida and have returned to describing a protracted shadow campaign."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/drone-war-in-pakistan-is-back_n_2433072.html
Some of my other comments - some got through.
73% of Pakistani's now consider the American government is their enemy.
There is already blowback for this - e.g. the rise in blue on blue killings in Afghanistan where Afghan security personnel are killing US troops.
Bombing the **** out of the North Vietnamese didn't work either. it recruited more people to fight their guerilla war
Europe and everywhere else except Israel is against the US drone warfare program.
The results of this policy are published elsewhere even if they aren't in US media.
This is state sponsored terrorism and indiscriminate killing. (censored)
Every civilian casualty increases the number of Islamic Extremists and Jihadists.
Every civilian casualty makes Americans and America less safe.
Every civilian casualty increases the likelihood of another major terrorist attack against America or Americans.
That is the deliberate intention.
Obama has nominated the chief architect of this lunatic policy to be the next CIA Director with his own fleet of drones.
Addendum
EVERY one of my comments on this thread is now being held back as pending so it will be buried under a hundred other comments.
I just posted "Test message" - it got put into the Pending pile. Lol
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