If you have an issue with a meme in GD or Politics, fight it out there.

If you have an issue with a general trend at DU, bring it up in Meta.

We don't want to use the 'safe haven' status of BOG to make critical comments about other DUers when, in all fairness, they can't really respond.

I understand and share your perspective on the drones. Having worked for almost a decade resettling hundreds of thousands whose lives were decimated by the Khmer Rouge (and a couple of million that didn't make it to the camps) I am keenly aware that there are those whose primarily military strategy is to target civilian populations to try and trigger wider conflict. Once in power they continue to target civilians as they govern. It eventually took the NVA to wipe out the Khmer Rouge leadership, but if it could have been done by an manned jet or an unmanned 'drone' I would have been happy to pull the trigger.

Nevertheless I am glad that the President has called for greater transparency in their use.

I am also not disappointed that the issue is debated passionately here, although the idea that the drones account for more civilian casualties than their targets is not true. But we should always be making the maximum steps to minimize civilian deaths.

So while sympathetic to your overall point I am locking this because we do not want to exacerbate perceptions of disunity here by using the 'safe haven' of the BOG to rail against DUers resulting from discussions in other forums.

Hope you understand this somewhat nuanced point.