>"During the war in Afghanistan, CIA-operated drones targeted moving vehicles as well as individuals identified as al-Qaida, Taliban, or key sympathizers..........

What did they use.....face recognition techniques?
"No George.....I meant the OTHER guy with the beard!!

No, they're looking for the guy with the X on the top of his head.
HE's definately Taliban ("the guy on the camel told me!")

Just ask the scrap metal dealers who "were in the wrong place at the wrong time".

Certainly drones have their uses in war, but remote controlled killing machines commanded by armchair pilot warriors take the face off the enemy don't they ? ("don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes").
How antiseptic.
I get a warm fuzzy feeling all over.

Microwave beam weapons.
Remote controlled killer drones targeting individuals.
Biological weapons.
Chemical weapons.
NUCLEAR weapons.
Torture of suspected prisoners.
War.
Death.
Never ending revenge and hatred.
Throw out all the rules.

No wonder some of us want to go into space. This planet is fixing to get buggered pretty bad.
Maybe I'll take up fishing in some remote cabin in the woods.
Let the madmen have at it.