On Tuesday, the White House admitted that the set of standards aimed at preventing civilian deaths due to U.S. Airstrikes would not apply to the current operations in Iraq and Syria.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the standards, which were implemented by President Obama in 2013, “would likely cut the number of strikes by establishing that Americans must be directly threatened, applying the standards for targeting Americans to all strikes, and saying there needs to be near-certainty that no civilians would be killed.” (Really, "near-certainty"...there is none, except of course with death and taxes...)
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the standards, which were implemented by President Obama in 2013, “would likely cut the number of strikes by establishing that Americans must be directly threatened, applying the standards for targeting Americans to all strikes, and saying there needs to be near-certainty that no civilians would be killed.” (Really, "near-certainty"...there is none, except of course with death and taxes...)
Read the story here...
http://bit.ly/1mVUJYP
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