[Skybird]

What can - and mjst - be discussed, however, is the question in what way and to what degree the distance between the trigger and the effect and the possibility to keep the actions outside a bigger public awareness focus reduces political inhibition to take such actions, and makes such wars more likely to be waged becasue they appear to be more acceptable: "out of sight, out of mind."

Here, the debate indeed leaves a lot to be desired. The old and new studies I linked to, showing the stress and psychological dissonance in drone pilots, also indicates that drone wars are much more "real" than on first sight they may appear to be to the unsuspecting eye.

The idea to have a international legal framework on how to use drones, I consider to be as absurd as other, earlier treaties of that kind. In war, the value in use decides on the methods, even more so if fighting an enemy who himself neither cares for Hague Landwarfare Convention or the Geneva Convention at all.