One benefit that has come from the simple asking of any drone question during last night’s debate is that, today, people in the media are talking about drones, and in a far more substantial way than the candidates did last night. One example is MSNBC’S Morning Joe. In the course of the commentator’s discussion of…
We got a question on drones last night at the third and final presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The mere asking of a direct question on the candidates’ drone policies is an advance over the near complete void of talk on the subject so far this election season. The moderator, Face the…
During the last two presidential debates, the foreign policy discussion—what little there has been—has largely centered around the murder of four members of the US embassy staff in Benghazi. But while these four deaths were certainly grievous, the killing of hundreds of civilians in Pakistan from US drone strikes has so far been ignored—and that’s…
The petition against US drone strikes in Pakistan has been delivered! On Wednesday, a delegation of peace activists organized by CodePink, including our Policy Director, Robert Naiman, met with the charge d’affaires of the US embassy in Pakistan, Richard Hoagland. During the meeting, Robert presented Hoagland with the 3,000 signature petition, as well as a…