Drones - we aren't going to like where this goes
Saturday 08 October 2011 at 8:16 pm. Used tags: assassination, done
The NY Times has an article that expresses my concern about drones. Basically, everyone will have drones soon enough, and the US is setting the precendent that it is ok to use them to kill people you don't like in other countries. We can expect to be on the receiving end in the not too distant future. If we can kill their people in their home, we should expect to have hostile drones flying over the United States and killing people. The defense contractors are probably ecstatic at the thought of the billions we will be spending on anti-drone defense systems. Drones may have seemed a cheap way to fight a war, but I think that in the end, they will end up costing us a lot of money, and leave us feeling forever uneasy. It will not have been worth it.
