Drones: an ethics and privacy minefield

[js207]

One of the questions I am interested in is whether your can send drones (killermachines) against people with whom you are not at war.

And if that is ok, are anyone safe?

Define war. If my country goes and fires missiles at your country, puts troops there, starts shooting your people, is that war?

[leo9]

Define war. If my country goes and fires missiles at your country, puts troops there, starts shooting your people, is that war?

Well, yes, that's exactly the Pakistani government's complaint.

Officially, the US is their friend. But they're getting tired of having to reassure their people that yes, those families the Americans killed were definitely terrorists, and so were our soldiers whose base the Americans shot up, the Americans told our President so, and they're our friends so it must be true.