Putting a Leash on the Drones?

We have never fully understood the ongoing debate amongst a certain set of lawyers and foreign policy experts over the use of drones against terrorists both on the Afghan-Pakistan region and more recently in other failed states and regions such as the successful drone strike against Anwar Al-Awlaqi.  

It appears the Obama Administration is becoming increasingly sensitive to these debates and questions regarding the US's extraterritorial rights to strike at these groups as they plan and prepare to strike the US or our interests around the world.  The US government has for the past decade relied on he congressionally approved Authorization for Use of Military Force (passed by Congress in late September 2001 immediately following the 9/11 attacks) and, more broadly, on the basic international law of self-defense.  All of these factors and reasons were reiterated by US Counter-Terrorism head John Brennan  Harvard Law School this past September 16th.

The latest proof of this wavering by the Obama Administration was reported today by David Ignatius who writes a more careful, thoughtful approach is being adopted.  One of the key reasons for this?

"This calibrated approach has reassured key U.S. allies, such as Britain, that have large Muslim immigrant populations and were worried about the blow-back from U.S. campaigns against al-Qaeda affiliates. “There was concern that it was a blanket approach,” concedes the U.S. official."

So, to be clear: Because we are worried about large Muslim immigrant populations getting angry over our taking an aggressive approach toward terrorism in their home countries we are pulling back on drone strikes?  If this is the case, then we have lost.  We have lost the war, we have lost "the West" and most of all, lost our sanity.  It is widely believed these people have come to the West for opportunity and to escape the very terror and chaos we are fighting.  If they are angered by our defense policies, then they should leave -- or we should not let them into our nations.  The once mighty UK seems to be lost now to the West -- drowned in their silly multi-culturalism, materialism, complete turn from faith and heritage.  Victoria's England has now become Londonistan's England - bowed and bent to meet the demands of their non-assimilating populations.


The US must recognize this tragedy and resist with all its might against following down this trail of stagnation and capitulation.  And it must continue fighting aggressively against terrorism wherever it may be found.  As we learned in the Cold War, there is no "containment" of ideas or ideals.  It was the vision of Ronald Reagan to radiate the virtues of freedom and human rights to the Eastern Bloc along with the determination to build a military capable of striking anywhere, anytime in defense of these ideals that ultimately thawed and transformed those labor camp nations into the prosperous, free countries we are allied with today. 

There is no containment of Islamic radicalism.  And there should be no containment of our drone policy to salve the feelings of hostile populations within our borders of our allies. Or we will all become like England.