Torture and Obama’s Drone Program : The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/02/torture-and-obamas-drone-program.html
In some ways, what’s most disturbing about the Obama white paper is not that it tried to set limits in order to ensure that the drone program was within the laws of war. Rather, what seems more worrisome is what it didn’t attempt to figure out, and which no one else seems to be addressing either: namely, whether conventional laws of war should still apply to America’s unconventional counterterrorism program, particularly now that it is over a decade old, and is seemingly morphing into an endless worldwide lethal manhunt.