Ryan Lucas

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The NPR Politics Podcast · The legacy of 9/11 · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

They have now evolved.

I mean, part of what made the ability to target certain folks in Yemen or in Somalia or in Syria was the fact that you could –

use a drone, you wouldn't be putting U.S.

troops in harm's way necessarily.

And you could take that military action without all the risks that traditionally would have accompanied such action.

And so we've seen the rise of how drones have been used over the past 20 years.

And then we've seen the shift in drone warfare in the past five, six years or so in Ukraine, in the Ukraine-Russia war, and then, of course, now in the U.S.

in Israeli conflict with Iran.

of that disenchantment, I think, stems from the justification for, in particular, the Iraq War and...

And the drive for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam's regime, the American public was told by the Bush administration possessed.

And then later it was abundantly clear that he did not have WMD.

And so that the whole justification and push for that war in particular, which turned incredibly bloody.

I think took a lot of wind out of the sails of the American public and also morale in the military as well.

All right, let's take a quick break.