If you think that’s a good kill ratio - do not pass go and move straight to the War Collage Infirmary. Pretending that Taliban or Al Qaeda leaders are indispensable and not more like Hydra is not a good reason to support video-game-like Predator drones. So far, to his shame, President Obama has given green light or at least not a caution light to the proponents of sanitary and safe assassination.

Everyone, it seems, has chosen to forget that such claims by proponents of weapon systems have more often turned out to be wrong - dangerously wrong as they were in Viet Nam about using Agent Orange, making up head counts of how many Viet Cong were killed and how much it mattered, and carpet bombing by B-52.s