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Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ... by ris on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:56PM (#6980714)
They probably did up until the point when both sides were armed with them. But the difference with Napalms, B52s and drone strikes is the enemy they were used against were never likely to be able to obtain similar weapons and thus threaten their opponents to a similar extent.

I'm not particularly sure about the concept of "cowardice" here, I just had to point out this logical flaw.

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Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ... by mikeash on Sunday December 29, 2013 @02:09PM (#6980783)
On what timescale does "never" apply? Large technological gaps in weapons between different people carrying out a fight aren't that uncommon, after all. A couple hundred years later and you can hardly tell the difference.
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Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ... by ris on Sunday December 29, 2013 @03:20PM (#6981138)
> On what timescale does "never" apply?

Non-temporal colloquial "never". "Never in their wildest dreams" never.

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Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know ... by mikeash on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:33PM (#6981788)
It seems reasonably possible that the people we're currently blowing up with drones would have similar technology by, say, the year 3000. (Not the exact same people, obviously, but that group of people.)
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