&gt; It makes you a tragic accident.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re not going to apologize for this, because you hung out with someone who was on our list, who we <i>think</i> was in this area, and so clearly you deserved being bombed by a drone. What? You borrowed your friend&#x27;s phone? Oh well. Jackpot.&quot;<p>&gt; And it&#x27;s not like the Taliban aren&#x27;t a real threat to Afghanistan. They just took over the 5th largest city in Afghanistan two weeks ago.<p>Why are we concerned with Afghanistan?  There are literally dozens of other countries that are an actual threat to our National Interests (note: I did not say national security), so if we&#x27;re going to go after countries, there are lots of other countries that should be ahead of a country half a world away.<p>One thing that sending in ground troops would do is hopefully reignite the debate as to whether we should be in that country at all.<p>A major problem with drones is that it allows us to make enemies without having to actually commit to a war.  These Drone strikes are essentially a line-item on our defense department budget, and the CIA drone strikes are part of a black-budget we don&#x27;t even know what it contains, let alone able to debate it.<p>If we&#x27;re basing drone strikes on groups we&#x27;re unfriendly with taking over countries, then we&#x27;ve got a lot of targets to go after.<p>The problem with not minding our own business and starting wars around the globe is that we continually get blowback, but we don&#x27;t learn from it. It was &quot;to keep the world safe for Democracy&quot;, then &quot;safe from Nazis&quot;, then &quot;Safe from communism&quot;, and now &quot;safe from international terrorism&quot;, yet there is no debate in our congress about how our policies fuel any of these things.<p>When will there be a &#x27;war&#x27; to keep the world safe from us?