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The drone campaign has been managed or commanded by the CIA because it falls under the auspices of irregular warfare, as well as the legal ability for the CIA to prosecute this war more freely than the military. Mainly because the CIA prosecutes irregular warfare.
As to making enemies in Pakistan, I'm not sure if more enemies are made by drones or by Madrasas sponsored by the UAE which kick out a regular crop of radical west hating ready made enemies of the USA.
Drone attacks in Pakistan are flown with full knowledge of the Pakistani military. Pakistan would love for the world to think that it's all the US, and they are a helpless victim. Truth is the military in Pakistan is complicit and fosters the idea that they are victims in the drone campaign because of the politics involved in their own country.
As far as prisoners at GITMO, for the life of me I can't figure out why they have never been treated as enemy combatants. The Bush administration started the ball rolling and it's never stopped. They should never have been tortured. They are belligerents captured on the field of battle. They should be returned to their own country at the end of the conflict. It should not matter to us that many of them will be executed upon arrival. That it does matter to us speaks more highly of our collective conscience than my own. This whole GITMO thing started out on the wrong foot and will have a bad ending no matter how you slice it. Suck it up USA and end it while you can.
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Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.
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