Why the furor over drones? Even weaponized drones?

[The Straight Story]

42. My Take:

"The one constant -- war still gets waged. One could argue that as war-making technology improves and gets less expensive, war will be waged more "easily" or frequently. But one could also argue that as one side gains a technological advantage over another side, some conflicts will be avoided, at least until the side lagging behind catching up. "

I am more talking about our society and values and using such here - and how it is now 'sides'. Us and the government.

And on waging war I get and understand what you are saying, but by my values and understanding we are not in a war. We are hunting for people who have, as far as anyone can tell, not attacked us and who have little if not ability at this point to do so (sure, we can say some in that org have done so but that is like saying all people of X religion are responsible for what someone else did years ago).

If N. Korea sends a nuke our way and we can use drones in the fight, fine by me. Take out their ability to wage war and leave at that point - what we should have done in Iraq instead of occupying it.

It's not so much about wars but about the power we give the few over the many and the choices we as a people make of how and when to use what weapons we have. We could have nuked half the middle east, but for some reason we didn't. So obviously there are some things we stop and think about before doing as a country - the use of drones and killing people (while having other countries claim they did to cover up for us) is something we need to all talk about...instead of some trial I see on TV all the time about a woman who killed some guy.