• TheseusNow@lemmy.zip
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      Unrestricted drone warfare is more an Obama critisicm than Biden. The only creepy Biden thing I remember was him sniffing women’s hair.

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        Obama and Biden both had to approve drone strikes. It was the first Trump administration that got rid of that requirement.

        Not saying that this makes Obama or Biden better, but it seems like Trump was even worse.

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        I care less about drone strikes against direct military targets and the like than I do about funding Israel’s ongoing genocide that has killed far, far more innocent people than any “whoopsie that was a schoobus” incidents.

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          That’s… A good thing? The full quote from the article is:

          In October 2017, Trump abolished the Obama-era approval system in favor of a looser, decentralized approach, which gave the military and CIA officials the discretion to decide to launch drone strikes against targets without White House approval.[25] This policy reduced accountability for drone strikes.[26] After Joe Biden took office, he halted counterterrorism drone strikes without White House approval and initiated a broad review of U.S. policy on drone use.[25]

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            That’s better than what it used to be under Trump, but not better than what it used to be under Obama. It does just mean that Biden had to approve every drone strike, so technically any kid that died during his presidency to US drones is on him.