President Biden Must Change the U.S.’s Catastrophic, Dehumanizing Drone Program
President Biden Must Change the U.S.’s Catastrophic, Dehumanizing Drone Program
March 11, 2021
On February 4, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden announced the end of US military aid for the calamitous Saudi-led war effort in Yemen. The statement was hailed as a judicious and long overdue move for the United States; the much-criticized Yemen conflict has descended into the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crisis. However, an official added that “actions against” al-Qaeda in the region would not cease. This means deadly US drone strikes the continuation of which contradicts the “moral leadership” Biden cited in his Yemen communiqué.