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I agree on your points about the War on <term>, and the necessity to move back to a position of having more concrete definitions and end-games for war. I take issue with your dismissal of Paul's concern of the issue.

(All politicians of any success will be playing politics; it's a matter of whether they're playing them to the right ends, personal ambition aside. If this is Rand manoeuvring, I want to see more of it.)

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Drones represent another removal of the "difficulty barrier" between law enforcement and their unquenchable desire to subjugate civilians. Just as guns don't kill people, drones don't kill people. And just like gun-control advocates don't trust the people to bear arms, drone-control advocates don't trust the federal government to respect the existence or the privacy of its citizens.

The difference is that a civilian murderer usually gets punished. It is a shock to the system to hear of any law enforcement officer or agency to be seriously reprimanded for the most egregious of murders, assaults, and violations of trust.