Late 2009, a US cruise missile attack in Yemen that, with the indiscriminate use of cluster munitions, left 55 people dead. This included 14 women and 21 children according to an Amnesty International report. This attack was aimed at US enemies, but does the US have the right to go around killing people in any country they like for any reason they like. Is this by definition terrorism?
This murder and destruction of property and livelihoods is not a one off crime. Not just Yemen has suffered. Pakistan is frequently targeted, as well as the invaded countries of Iraq and Afghanistan.
These drone and cruise missile attacks are not just carried out by the USA. Israel also uses such terrorist weaponry also.
So why does the international community just stand-by and allow such war crimes?
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