Friday, April 16, 2010

Drones Don’t Kill People. Lawyers Do.


From MOAA Blogs:

She is the blow-up doll of warfare on the eastern front. She has been a media darling. The venerable “60 Minutes” followed her halfway across the world. Details are vague, but U.S. forces are enjoying a love affair with the drone. We have seen U.S. Air Force pilots trained to remotely fly drones from the comfort of super secret places. It has been reported the CIA has acknowledged smoking around 500 suspected bad guys since 2009 by unmanned means. Drones do the dirty work keeping U.S. and allied personnel a little safer.

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My Comment: I commented on this issue a few weeks ago, but this blog has done a better post. The key sentence in this posting is the last one ....

.... Drones don’t kill. People do. Lawyers do. If the U.S. is legally vulnerable, then it needs to hire some better lawyers ....

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