U.S. Drone Policy

With the recent talk about U.S. interest in bombing Syria, I thought it would be a good time to bring up drone policy. First, an extremely brief intro to our drone policy. Essentially what we do is gather 'reliable' information on a target (which most of the time is true) and then send out a drone to drop a missile on the target. Now, what could possibly be so bad about this? We get the bad guy and no one gets put in harms way, except for the civilians around the blast radius. Well, some collateral is unavoidable, right? Then again it's not our citizens to be putting in harms way. Like I said, most of the time the information is correct, but when it isn't correct we end up dropping bombs on villages of people. So we put lives that aren't even under our sovereignty in harms way on the chance we'll kill a terrorist. Doesn't seem so bad? But wait there's more! These drone's aren't actually automated, someone has to be pulling that trigger and guiding that missile to the ground at some computer in some obscure place that's probably hundreds of miles away, and therein lies the problem. This person controlling the missile doesn't even see the faces of whoever is underneath them, all that person is to them is a blip on the screen, like in that AC-130 mission in COD. Just imagine how much easier that makes it for the person to pull that trigger. We're essentially taking away their identity as a human when we do this.

Sorry, this was extremely rant like.