Who wins with a coin toss when both sides are blank?

We often talk about the flip-side of the coin. In Thursday’s NY Times editorial, the Times editors, like many people ignoring the flip-side of one particular coin, lamented the civilian lives lost in drone attacks in the Middle East. The two sides of the coin—at least, in recent experience—are drone and special forces versus “boots on the ground,” lots of boots! The Times editors either suffered a lobotomy, or, like many pacifist activists with blinders on, have forgotten the perils of massiv...