In an informative article on “killer drones,” Nat Hentoff asks, “Where’s the accountability?” Where indeed. Modern warfare seems bent on shedding all ethical restraint, from the distinction between combatant and non-combatant, to the defining of clear objectives and exit strategy, to the due process of law (undeclared, therefore unconstitutional, wars; death sentences on US citizens without trial; etc.). We’re become a rogue superpower. Neither would the Founders of the Republic nor the Church’s moral magisterium approve.
