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But many drone strikes are targeting specific individuals. They don't have surgical precision, but they are not indiscriminate.

• beloch 12y ago
  My point was that killing someone with a drone isn't even as precise as walking up to somebody on the street and unloading a shotgun in their face. All the operator sees is a few human shaped pixels. He has to rely on other sources of intelligence to infer that the target is who he thinks he is. It's like the state executing people by planting bombs in their offices that have simple time-delay fuses. When 4:30 pm Friday rolls around, the intended target might be in his office, or he might be out golfing. Somebody else entirely might wind up being there and the bomb is certain to take out more than one office to boot. Friday might even be bring your daughter to work day.