The moral case for drones
The moral case for drones
- July 16, 2012
- Daniel Brunstetter, political science assistant professor, is quoted in The New York Times and CounterPunch July 14, 2012
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From the NYT:
The drone's promise of precision killing and perfect safety for operators is so seductive,
in fact, that some scholars have raised a different moral question: Do drones threaten
to lower the threshold for lethal violence? "In the just-war tradition, there's the
notion that you only wage war as a last resort," said Daniel R. Brunstetter, a political
scientist at the University of California at Irvine who fears that drones are becoming
"a default strategy to be used almost anywhere." With hundreds of terrorist suspects
killed under President Obama and just one taken into custody overseas, some question
whether drones have become not a more precise alternative to bombing but a convenient
substitute for capture. If so, drones may actually be encouraging unnecessary killing.
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/the-moral-case-for-drone....
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