{"id":14204,"date":"2015-05-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:52","slug":"drone-strikes-reveal-uncomfortable-truth-u-s-is-often-unsure-about-who-will-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/drone-strikes-reveal-uncomfortable-truth-u-s-is-often-unsure-about-who-will-die","title":{"rendered":"Drone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often Unsure About Who Will Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a title=\"More Articles by SCOTT SHANE\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/s\/scott_shane\/index.html\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SCOTT SHANE\">SCOTT SHANE<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/NYTimes.com\">NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"251\" data-total-count=\"251\">Barack Obama inherited two ugly, intractable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he became president and set to work to end them. But a third, more covert war he made his own, escalating drone strikes in Pakistan and expanding them to Yemen and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"357\" data-total-count=\"608\">The drone\u2019s vaunted capability for pinpoint killing appealed to a president intrigued by a new technology and determined to try to keep the United States out of new quagmires. Aides said Mr. Obama liked the idea of picking off dangerous terrorists a few at a time, without endangering American lives or risking the yearslong bloodshed of conventional war. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/24\/world\/asia\/drone-strikes-reveal-uncomfortable-truth-us-is-often-unsure-about-who-will-die.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SCOTT SHANE \u2014 NYTimes.com Barack Obama inherited two ugly, intractable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he became president and set to work to end them. But a third, more covert war he made his own, escalating drone strikes in Pakistan and expanding them to Yemen and Somalia. The drone\u2019s vaunted capability for pinpoint [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64738,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions\/64738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}