Pros And Cons Of Drone Strikes

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Drones Ought to be Banned Group 5 Negative Essay

Hello, I am Zoe. Today we are arguing the negative case for the resolution of “Drones Ought to be banned”. Before I start, I would like to say that a drone is any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely, according to dictionary.com, which our group interpreted as a camera drone or an attack drone. Our main points are as follows:
Drone strikes are fired in countries with their agreement and encouragement, and does not break their or the UN’s laws.
Camera drones help a lot of people, not just the military.
Attack drones drastically reduce civilian casualties in terrorist-fighting attacks.

US drone strikes help countries fight threats that cannot be controlled within their …show more content…
Yemen’s President, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has publically praised drone strikes in his country, freely stating that the "electronic brain’s precision is unmatched by the human brain.", according to nytimes.com. In 2008, Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani asked US officials for more drone strikes (huffingtonpost.com), and in April 2013 former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf acknowledged to CNN that his government had secretly signed off on US drone strikes (edition.cnn.com). In Pakistan, where the vast majority of drone strikes are carried out, drones have contributed to a major decrease in violence. The 41 suicide attacks in Pakistan in 2011 had decreased drastically from the 87 suicide attacks reported in 2009
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