Are Drone Strikes less Moral?

[abaris]

In Psychology class, I remember learning about an experiment on the extent to which people could be instructed to push a button that would administer a shock to a person while they watched behind a two way mirror.

Yes, the well known Milgram experiment. It showed that there are a great many potential SS-men out there in every country of the world. If authority says to push the button, you don't ask twice. It's not your responsibility anymore.

As far as drone strikes or manned bomb attacks go, there's no moral or immoral about both. They're both amoral and what's more, they're fundamentally stupid in the way they're carried out. And that's the bigger problem and the bigger question to ask, since with a great many innocent bystanders killed, they're a first class recruitment campaign for extremists. Wether the missile, killing auntie or granny, was fired by a drone or an aircraft is a secondary concern.