Your Feb 21 piece on the drone strikes essentially failed to question their legality or question the massive (> 32%) civilian casualties they cause. You are content to cite, unexamined, an anonymous government official's statement that they are legal. A throwaway mention of the civilian toll is postponed to the end of the article, when you've already gone on at some length at how precise, bureaucratic, advantageous, and wonderful these assassinations are. Where are the critics? Is it that hard to find the ACLU, for instance?
Your article falls so far short of The New Yorker's articles on the same subject that it's embarrassing. I wish I could say I was surprised by this typically craven act of water-carrying for US foreign policy on the part of Newsweek.
Jeffrey Carlson,
Medford MA
10 hours ago
The front page of this week's Newsweek is a very cheap shot! While I am not a supporter of this particular candidate, I think this is a new low for so called journalism. What modeling for all, especially our youth,in civility and respect for each other. No wonder Washington can't get anything done! All are to blame in DC-not just the minority Tea Party members, who may be the scape goats in this picture. The American people are able to judge for themselves. Give them credit for being smarter than you think they are. They are certainly smarter than the pundits, and the current representatives. Where and when does greed stop? Are Congressmen and women going to be a part of Obamacare-like the rest of us? Will they give up Social Security or their full salaries in retirement? Who else gets such benefits outside of CEOs? Their has been no change in Washington and "hope" is dimming quickly!!
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