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In reply to the discussion: My son, who preferred Obama over Romney had some pretty startling things to say............ [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)during the allied bombing raids. For a time, he lived in an apartment building next to a railroad station. One morning, pre-school aged, he woke up from a night in the basement bomb shelter to discover that the half of the building in which his friends lived had been bombed. His friends were dead.
His view on the drones is something that I had never thought of. He says that while for many, many centuries "leaders" who took nations to war could avoid the carnage and violence and send others to fight, the drones enable the military to destroy relatively specific targets. Yes. The drones do not totally eliminate civilian deaths, but they make it much easier to kill the "leaders," and place the risk of death on those who actually make the decision to go to war.
It is a moral dilemma, but that dilemma always exists once there is a war.
Perhaps the precision of drones will cause leaders to be more cautious about declaring wars and more willing to compromise and make peace.