<story><title>Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sunday-review/coming-soon-the-drone-arms-race.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>astrofinch</author><text>&amp;#62;“The problem is that we’re creating an international norm” — asserting the right to strike preemptively against those we suspect of planning attacks, argues Dennis M. Gormley, a senior research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and author of “Missile Contagion,” who has called for tougher export controls on American drone technology. “The copycatting is what I worry about most.”&lt;p&gt;How about the fact that we&apos;re doing it, period?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_in_empathy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sunday-review/coming-soon-the-drone-arms-race.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>Everything we do that duhumanizes war comes with good ethical concerns (less loss of human life) but this doesn&apos;t make war any better.&lt;p&gt;Drones - save our lives.  Cruise missiles - save our lives.  An A-bomb saved our lives.&lt;p&gt;Not getting into as many wars would save the most lives.  (Note:  Some wars - like WW II are I admit unavoidable, but very few fall under this heading)</text></comment>