re: #117 Killgore Trout

OMG1 Obama was ready to hand the drones over to Mitt!

Obama ‘drone-warfare rulebook’ condemned by human rights groups

I think their use in warfare is useful. However, there are larger questions here which can be summed up in a couple of questions.

Are we OK with president being able to carry out “private” and secret wars without the consent of congress and the American public?

Are we also willing to allow the president to continue to carry out the extra-judicial killing of citizens and non-citizens around the world and again with little or no congressional oversight and kept secret from the American public?

Is this the way a true democracy behaves?

Is this a slippery slope?