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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 10:27 PM
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8. Actually...
...in war operations, contractors do not operate the "drones"; only military personnel do. In fact, some types of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (the actual military name for what the media call "drones") are programmed to fly autonomously, without real-time pilot control.

I suppose those who are so ardently opposed to the use of "drones" would prefer the use of the old B-52 bombers to carpet-bomb entire areas and take out entire villages indiscriminately.

Seriously, the concern ought not be with the use of "drones" or any other specific technology of war; it should be with the fact that we are conducting war operations at all, particularly in a place like Afghanistan, where even a sizable portion of the troops no longer believe there's any point to it.
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