{"id":38517,"date":"2013-06-02T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_register_us_catholic_bishops_say_grave_concerns_remain_over_obama_drone_\/"},"modified":"2013-06-02T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:30:18","slug":"nc_register_us_catholic_bishops_say_grave_concerns_remain_over_obama_drone_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38517","title":{"rendered":"(NC Register) US Catholic Bishops Say Grave Concerns Remain Over Obama Drone War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has entered a new phase in the war against al Qaeda and its allies, drawing down from its large-scale combat operations in Afghanistan and moving to more targeted counterterrorism operations where military attack drones will play a major role.<\/p>\n<p>However, the U.S. bishops are now warning increased U.S. dependence on military attack drones for \u201ctargeted killings\u201d\u009d pose serious moral questions that President Barack Obama, Congress and the U.S. public must consider.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Richard Pates, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 Committee on International Justice and Peace, wrote a May 17 letter to the White House stating that the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or \u201cdrones\u201d\u009d in certain cases appeared to \u201cviolate the law of war, international human-rights law and moral norms.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/bishops-say-grave-concerns-remain-over-obama-drone-war\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has entered a new phase in the war against al Qaeda and its allies, drawing down from its large-scale combat operations in Afghanistan and moving to more targeted counterterrorism operations where military attack drones will play a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38517\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,143,168,154,364,95,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}