Interesting, for years (around 8, but I would be hard pressed to nail it down), I have felt that air warfare, especially drone warfare, was wrong. The best explanation I had was that taking life without risking the life of one of your own made it too easy to kill and struck me as cowardly. Which left me with little to argue with, however it appears I have more to stand on than I though. There can be no doubt. There can be no denial. The irrefutable truth is that, with very, very few exceptions, distant punishment in the form of aerial bombing is: psychiatrically unsound, psychologically impotent, strategically counterproductive, morally bankrupt, and likely to soon be illegal. Thus there is very little justification for basing national policy on the effectiveness of air strikes. Or for directing precious national resources toward conducting any air strike. Unless it is in support of, and directed by, ground troops who can and will psychologically exploit it. Ground troops who will also have the moral courage to subsequently accept direct personal and national responsibility for whatever death and destruction results from that air strike. Nothing else should be acceptable for a democratic nation in the post-Cold War era.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:50:01 +0000
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