Summary
White House estimated that between 64 and 116 civilians have died during the year s 2009-2015 from U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq ad Afghanistan in the same span that U.S. drone have killed between 2372 to 2581 militants. But some human rights group claimed that although they welcome the release of number of civilians that U.S. drone strike had killed, it is lower than all independent assessments estimated. Counts of civilian drone death has always been controversial. U.S. government needs to define who conceal the identities of people it has killed again.
Opinion
Actually technology has made the war much easier and reduced the number of people who unnecessarily be killed like not-armed people than it used to be before. But at the same time, technology cannot be perfect. Like this article, drone strike still kills people who is not targeted as a soldier. I cannot say they, United States, should stop using drone strikes easily but at least I can say they should try much harder not to kill civilians and not conceal the number of civilians they have killed. It is really scary to be in a situation that we never know when we get killed. For controllers of drones, it is just part of work, part of life, but for the people who live in the targeted country, it is part of war. Controller have to know that, and they have to realize they are actually killing people.