Maybe there is hope, when finally a large paper like the L.A. Times starts to wonder about the drone war. How sad and tragic:
It is certainly not what he hoped or intended, but one of President Obama’s biggest legacies in foreign affairs may prove to be the proliferation of drones as tools of war, assassination and terror.
Meanwhile, nary a peep from the so-called anti-war left who protested the previous regime. Unlike those of us who oppose war from both left and right as the health of the state, some “liberals” remain silent because it’s their president. All of a sudden we must obey because he’s the boss, the dad, the commander in chief. He has now launched six times the number of drones as the previous occupant in the White House. And how long before those drones come back to haunt us, as the times presciently observes?
A wise president would also anticipate the day when this technologically marvelous weapon is turned against us. A decade ago, the United States had a near monopoly on drones; now they are in the hands of dozens of countries. It is likely that some enterprising terrorist is, even now, thinking there is no reason to pack a bomb in the underpants of some aspiring martyr when it would be simpler to get hold of a cheap hobbyist’s drone, wire it up with explosives and send it on a short flight to the nearest airport.
