No national swipes on HN, please. They lead to flamewars, and it's easy to make your substantive point without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not for me, because maybe I deserve the downvotes, but in controversial topics like this please try to not downvote other people just because of different point of views.

I am seeing good opinions being downvoted... why? The karma system is not a popularity contest.

I'll admit i wasn't too impressed when the USA started killing British civilians in Iraq and Syria with drones.

Murder each other as much as you see fit but can we at least respect the rule of law and have these ISIS members stand trial in the future?

People in military uniforms, that are part of a (well-?) organised group armed with small arms and heavy weapons that is currently fighting against other military and paramilitary groups, can not with 100% honesty be called civilians...

I think that if you introduce a kind of mechanism that gives so much power in the hands of a selected and unaccountable few, you are on the road of corruption of power.

You're right, it isn't - and that's why the military solution exists.

Who would command those drone strikes? A neutral party, that would not target specific people who are in the way of some specific interests?

I can imagine that if you weild those tools where there are interests, a lot of hands will want to grab the controls and point them at people not involved with the original problem.