Kenneth Anderson at the Volokh Conspiracy shares with us the fact that Martha Raddatz bemoans the fact that the pilots who guide the drones are not hanging their hides out there, getting killed and wounded as proper soldiers should in her view.
Traditionally, when a nation went to war, it had to invest its blood and treasure, but today’s joystick-wielding drone pilots can launch a missile strike from here at home, then hop in the minivan to meet the wife and kids for dinner. War couldn’t get any more impersonal.
And this is bad, why? Because it is striking, all on its own, that Ms. Raddatz thinks this state of affairs obviously undesirable in some way; the disapproval stands out, along with the apparent sense that it is so obvious that one need not even explicitly state why it is bad.
When called, they always back away:
No, no, you misunderstand us (this from the ACLU), we always respect the professionalism, &tc., &tc., of US servicemen and women .
No they don't; the look down on them as uneducated lesser beings who don't understand the "nuanced" ways of the world and who should get shot or blown up in they are going to engage in the wars that their country sends them to fight. They look at them literally as "cannon fodder."
H/T Instapundit
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