Drone War Clarifies Issues

Kiel Brennan-Marquez  has written a progressive's defense of drone warfare. I hope you can google the whole essay. The essay's key point is as follows. War is hell, but in traditional warfare all sorts of myths fog up Gen. Sherman's truth, including myths about your own war heroes, the sacred dead and so forth. But if you use only drones, your side has no heroes, just killers.  Few will admire a pilot sitting safely in an air-conditioned room in Florida while butchering people in Yemen. The ugliness of war suddenly becomes starkly clear. Drone war, Brennan-Marquez argues, will encourage people to rethink their stance toward wars and consider restraint. (There is at least a hint of this process evident in the speech made by the President yesterday.)