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Letter: War cannot be fought by committee

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I have a big problem with drones. Drones as you know commonly are remotely controlled objects that can help protect our borders, look for lost hikers, seek out and destroy terrorists, and even in the insect world, make honey, but these are not the drones I mean.

Political and ideological drones, unthinking individuals who listen to their leaders rather than think independently, are the ones I mean. The current controversy over the use of drones by the president to kill those who kill us—created by the left and, strangely, the right—can only be the work of drones. I’ll illustrate.

Should a U.S. national fighting for the enemy be targeted for extinction by a drone with no loss of U.S. human assets at risk, or should we kill more of our youth trying to capture said traitor? Some believe our Constitutional rights extend beyond our borders on foreign soil. They do not. We may choose to afford these rights to the enemy, but we and no other g...

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