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The thing is, he's asking the Executive Branch to do Congress' job for it. If he wants to see constraint's on the President's authority to take military action, then he should introduce legislation to either curb the use of drones or amend the AUMF, which currently grans the President extremely broad authority.

Since 2001 the stage has begun to be set for widespread drone and autonomous warfare, free of pesky human flesh and the laws that constrain it.

The civilian casualty rate from drone warfare is an awful lot lower than other kinds as far as I can see. It's a distinct improvement on aerial bombardment.




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