Sniper teams don't usually cause significant collateral damage and also the targetting and intelligence is likely much better. Often drone attacks are based upon unverified intelligence and plenty of deaths and wounding of people who may be quite innocent. Anyway do foreign sniper teams operate in other countries
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--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> From: Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Query re legal status of drone attacks
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:03 PM
> In the original post, Ken Hanly
> writes:
>
> > I have always thought that drone attacks seemed to be
> a
> > violation of any norms of justice since the drone
> operator
> > acts to apprehend, try, and punish all at the same
> time as
> > far as the target is concerned.
>
> How is this different from, say, a sniper team?
>
> As for the territory angle, the only entity that might have
> a beef would be Pakistan, and they clearly don't have a
> beef. I agree with Michael Pollak that they are
> "invited assistance" ...
>
> /jordan
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