How drone war became the American way of life
Source: Al-Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201222791327288883.html
"In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press here. They have generally been greeted as if they were the sleekest of iPhones armed with missiles.
When the first American drone assassins burst onto the global stage early in the last decade, they caught most of us by surprise, especially because they seemed to come out of nowhere or from some wild sci-fi novel. Ever since, they've been touted in the media as the shiniest presents under the American Christmas tree of war, the perfect weapons to solve our problems when it comes to evildoers lurking in the global badlands.
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In this sense, think of us as moving from the citizen's army to a roboticised, and finally robot, military - to a military that is a foreign legion in the most basic sense. In other words, we are moving towards an ever greater outsourcing of war to things that cannot protest, cannot vote with their feet (or wings), and for whom there is no "home front" or even a home at all. In a sense, we are, as we have been since 1973, heading for a form of war without anyone, citizen or otherwise, in the picture - except those on the ground, enemy and civilian alike, who will die as usual."
Eery, indeed. The ethical questions and those relating to national sovereignty are very troubling to me.
I also remember the first weaponized drone for police use. And some tens of thousands are planned to be flying around soon.
We have become dehumanized and insensitive.
Note: I am labeled having a "hypersensitive" disorder - but have recently declared myself cured, once I understood it is the desensitized majority that is sick. 
