The US’ refusal to acknowledge drone strikes that kill foreigners is sending a damaging message in Yemen and beyond. As Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah, a villager from Silat al-Jarraah, put it: “I believe that America is testing its lethal inventions in our poor villages, because [it] cannot afford to do so at any place where human life has value.
事实上，如果美国不承认具体的打击，普通美国人如何能够知道也门孕妇拉西拉·法基赫（Rasilah al-Faqih）在瓦拉德拉贝（Walad Rabei’）与她的丈夫以及十岁的女儿在就医返回途中被杀？他们如何知道阿卜杜赫·穆罕默德·贾拉哈（Abdoh Mohammed al-Jarraah）在希拉特贾拉哈（Silat al-Jarraah）的房子被无人机打击夷为平地时里面有19人，包括妇女和儿童？