Right now the US policy for executing drone strikes is one that delivers drone strikes into every place on earth where we think we can get away with it. When you think about it, that's the same policy used by every overreaching tyranny in history. They continued to do whatever they thought they could get away with until they went one tiny little step too far. That little step was always obvious in hindsight but transparent at the time.
Germany progressed from an outright prohibition on having U-boats, a war machine or an air force, to re-militarizing the Rhineland, taking over Austria, occupying German speaking Czechoslovakia and then invading Poland. We ourselves did nothing much about any of that. We didn't even mind all that much when U-boats started attacking our shipping. It took the Japanese to bring us into war with Germany -- I guess that obviates the point I was trying to make. When Germany went all hyper-aggressive barbarous we did nothing at all.... Oh well. Except.... maybe, Japan invaded all of its neighbors from the Soviet Union on down south by Java Head while we did exactly nothing at all to stop it or rein in its excesses. We didn't do anything until they attacked the US fleet in Hawaii. So there's that.
If our drone policy is rational, does that mean we can strike terrorist targets in Saudi Arabia? If we decide to deny ourselves the pleasure of mending fences with Saudi Arabia or Egypt, can we put warheads on foreheads in those countries too, just like we do in other benighted third world hell holes? Can we use them on Mexico and the drug cartels? "Variable this is Knife."
American attack drones coming to a neighborhood near you. You do know that the police are flying drones here and now, don't you? Have you any knowledge of a meaningful law that prevents your local police from putting weapons on their drones? Hell! I'm surprised they haven't armed their helicopters....yet.
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