Quote (thesnipa @ 28 Aug 2021 00:39)
Cause and effect. They're driven to extremist groups from some strikes and there are more easily radicalized.
The bombers are so often 14 year old fatherless boys
Quote (fender @ 28 Aug 2021 04:04)
call it what you want, it's not even the main point i was making in that post. i was just asking why blackx was so adamant about american drone and bomb strikes being an overstated factor when it comes to the motivations of islamist terrorists. of course he dodged that question, since he doesn't have anything to support his stance, and the obvious goal was to downplay america's role in creating those terrorists...
One of the few serious studies on the blowback hypothesis found no evidence:
https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/42/4/47/12192/Do-U-S-Drone-Strikes-Cause-Blowback-Evidence-fromhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/drone-blowback-much-ado-about-nothingQuote
Although scholars have extensively debated the military effectiveness, legal status, and ethics of drone warfare, there has been no systematic study of drone blowback beyond statements from some important public figures, anecdotes about individual terrorists, advocacy-driven research, and media commentary. In this article, I examine the conventional wisdom on drone blowback and and that most critics of drone warfare assume, rather than demonstrate, the occurrence of blowback, typically pointing to a specific theater of supposed blowback or lumping together different theaters, often without specifying the causal mechanisms that connect drone strikes to blowback in each case.
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I find no evidence of a significant impact of drone strikes on the recruitment of militants either locally or nationally. Instead, my data and secondary sources suggest that militant recruitment is a complex process driven by a variety of factors, some of which scholars and analysts have already identified. These include political grievances, the Pakistani state’s sponsorship of militancy as a tool of foreign policy, state repression, weak governance, and coercive recruitment by militant groups.
Additionally, my examination of the trial testimony and accounts of terrorists convicted in the United States, together with social science scholarship on Muslim radicalization in the United States and Europe, offers little or no evidence that drone strikes create a systematic pattern of transnational blowback. Although jihadists typically explain their actions as a response to U.S. military interventions in Muslim countries, the main causes of global militant Islamism are not drone strikes but factors such as identity crises suffered by young immigrants, the nature of state integration policies, social networks, and online exposure to extremist ideologies.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 27 2021 11:06pm