Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
One of the questions I am interested in is whether your can send drones (killermachines) against people with whom you are not at war.
That would seem to me to constitute an act of war by itself. Sending them against those with whom you ARE at war, even when they are hiding in someone else's country? That may be a grey area. It's one of the most difficult aspects of the "War on Terrorism". The terrorists, by definition, don't HAVE a country. They come from MANY countries. You are forced to attack them where you find them, and sometimes that means attacking them in countries that don't necessarily support terrorism, but don't have the wherewithal (political and/or military) to evict them. And when the terrorists are living within the local population, are an active part of the local culture, it become impossible to differentiate between the terrorist and the innocent. Of course, when the innocent are actually hiding and aiding the terrorists, they are no longer innocent, are they?