From the Sojourners blog comes a
post by Church of Christ pastor Phil Haslanger asking a different question
about the use of drones, the kind of question one could imagine Martin Luther
King asking were he alive today:
Yes, drones are efficient, effective,
and economical. But what do they do to the soul of this nation, to the psyches
of those who push the buttons from half a world away?...When we so disconnect
our warriors from the realities of war, what does that do to their souls and to
our collective soul? Do we lose sight of the horrible human cost of war? Do we
become arrogant in our perceived ability to rule the world from a computer
terminal?
As commentator Bill Moyers said in an essay on Feb. 7, our
recent wars in Vietnam and Iraq and now with drones all share a “blind faith in
technology, combined with a sense of infallible righteousness.”
That’s a recipe
for an illusive short-term victory at the cost of the moral high ground that
ought to set our nation apart. It’s a policy that is increasing animosity in
the nations we target, opens us to counterattacks in the future and corrodes
our inner selves.
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