>It's been demonstrated that for whatever reason the public at large isn't nearly so concerned about military actions carried out by drones. The public doesn't

>It's been demonstrated that for whatever reason the public at large isn't nearly so concerned about military actions carried out by drones. The public doesn't care if they're carried out by manned jets either. It's not like there's a huge risk to F-16 pilots zooming over guys with rusty AK-47s at 10,000 ft. From what I can glean the US has lost two strike aircraft (an F-15 and an F-16) in Afghanistan since 2001, neither of them to hostile action. If there's any difference politically it likely arises from the fact that you typically use at least a 250 lb bomb in a manned strike, whereas drone attacks normally involve missiles with 20 lb warheads, which you can use to blow up, say, a single car without taking out the entire block.