New technology does NOT necessarily mean new ways to oppress people, come on... Drones are what they are: machines - and they are simply used to kill off leaders whose agendas are, simply put, slaughter countless innocents and all forms of progress in the name of warped religious doctrine.
However, I DO wish that their controllers would stop being trigger-happy dumbasses by using missiles to simply take out one person. It feels like I'm caught between the Scylla of the greedy and deranged GOP and the Charybdis of those in the Occupy Movement that are convinced that every politician wants to reenact Nineteen-Eight-Four. Come on, people, we need to be REASONABLE here...
I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with technology.... however, there are drone strikes happening in multiple countries in which there is no declared state of war. Estimates of civilian casualties alone add up to 293 to 471 in Pakistan, and this is a low estimate. There may also be a tendency in the administration to claim that some civilians killed were enemy combatants, if merely to lower the number of civilians counted among the dead. Overall, giving the administration a tool like drones allows the President a certain amount of political leeway for aggressive military action which would be impossible if boots had to hit the ground. The American press may gingerly avoid hard coverage of civilian deaths, but ignoring the loss of American combat personnel is a little more difficult, and troop incursions into otherwise neutral countries would raise many more questions than targeted drone strikes.
However, I DO wish that their controllers would stop being trigger-happy dumbasses by using missiles to simply take out one person. It feels like I'm caught between the Scylla of the greedy and deranged GOP and the Charybdis of those in the Occupy Movement that are convinced that every politician wants to reenact Nineteen-Eight-Four. Come on, people, we need to be REASONABLE here...
死吧与以色列和美国军队!