Collateral Damage

[Jonathan Chausovsky]

Not that it is a constitutional issue per se (am I wrong on this?), but it
is certainly striking that there is absolutely no debate or questioning
about the propriety of launching a missile from a drone, intending and even
successfully killing Al Queda leaders in tribal regions of Pakistan, and at
the same time killing a significant number of presumably innocent villagers
at the same time (even granting that they are likely sympathisers of Al
Queda, to say the least).   I strongly suspect that a few years ago this
would have been quite controversial, and it shows how far we have tended
from mores and norms of recent times.  Kantians and Utilitarians can have at
it.

Jonathan Chausovsky
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Marquette University
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