How the President Became a Drone Operator:From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare

 I n the 1st half of last year,  U.S. and Afghan air and drone strikes  killed more civilians than the Taliban for the first time ever. In his Nobel Prize speech, Obama claimed that the reason the US adhered to certain rules of conduct in war like protecting civilians was because “that’s what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is the source of our strength.”He  did not mention that he had already authorized  more drone strikes than his predecessor, George W. Bush, approved during his entire presidency. In its recklessness and brutality, Trump’s escalating drone war should remind us all of just how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret and no one can stop him. Maybe this decade we’ll learn our lesson