"Lowering the threshold on acceptable civilian casualties"

By Chris Rossini

America's drone program is such a disgrace. Military pilots sitting at computer screens obliterating other human beings on the other side of the world in video game fashion.

Meanwhile, totally innocent people must live in a permanent state of fright, never knowing if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. At any moment, and without warning, a missile can drop in their vicinity and end it all. 

"All the while", as Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson puts it, "the military pil...