Yemen might take the cake.

     We obviously have many, many places around the world which prove with heart-breaking clarity how the military and martyr mindset not only gets in the way of, but actually reverses human progress, not to mention human decency. We here at Dad’s Against Military and Martyr Mindsets are never without deadly daily examples to show why we so urgently work toward a fundamental change in the mindset behind the U.S. foreign policy.

     We need no clearer example than the recent fall of the U.S. backed Yemeni Government.

     Here’s the lesson we should take from Yemen: When you kill people with drones—even when you kill bad people–this theoretically justified murder from on high does not stop terrorism. It never stops terrorism. It increases it.  Every time. Obama and his militaristic foreign policy generals have yet to learn this simple deadly lesson.

      Here’s the deal: According to published reports, since 2002, the U.S. has precipitated somewhere between 88 to 110 air and drone strikes. (15 air strikes… the rest were drone strikes.)

      The online magazine Slate reports that, “For Americans, the best known drone strikes in Yemen are those that killed American born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his son in 2011, in what was a rare and controversial instance of a U.S. citizen being targeted for extrajudicial (e.g. illegal) killing overseas. Yemen was also the site of one of the drone war’s greatest tragedies: Fifteen civilians were accidentally killed in 2013 when their wedding procession was mistaken for an al-Qaida convoy.”

      The U.S. also “accidentally” bombed the wrong mosque in one of their strikes.The internationally illegal, secret and violent U.S. military policy in Yemen naturally created wide-scale hatred and distrust among the Yemeni people, not only of the U.S. itself but also of the Yemeni government which had supposedly allowed and even encouraged the drone and air attacks, while receiving an ongoing river of military and economic “gifts” from the U.S.

      Curiously, it was not Al Queda who stormed the capital and took over the government, but a populist, anti-Al Queda movement who were fed up with the violence being perpetrated in their homeland by foreign powers. And this is not a policy left over from the George Bush days. With the exception of the first lethal drone strike in Yemen in 2002, all of the others were launched during the Obama administration.

      Drone wars don’t work. Recent events in Yemen have clearly proven this. Will the U.S. insist on proving it again– proving that killing people with drones is not in their best interest–in Pakistan and Somalia?

      We need to raise our voices against the use of drone time and time again, until all the drones are grounded at last.

With help from: Drone Wars Yemen: Analysis | The International Security Program.