John Oliver breaks down the United States’ troubling drone program

The US government has been continually criticized for how it operates its drone program, which is being used to kill militants in the Middle East using standards that are unclear and loose at best. The government’s unwillingness (or inability) to clarify all of this can make the entire situation fairly muddled, so this weekend John Oliver tried to trudge through it all. In the latest of his long and pointed segments, Oliver sorts out just how troubling the US drone program is. “When children from other countries are telling us that we’ve made them fear the sky,” he says, “it might be time to ask some hard questions.”