Are Drone Strikes less Moral?

[abaris]

People under bombardement can still run for cover.

Really, like that gran in Pakistan who never knew what hit her, when some drone operator mistook decided to take her for a combatant while she was actually caring for her veggie garden? Or those reporters in Bagdad, in the video wikileaks made public?

It's not as if these attacks were announced with sirens as they were in WWII. They come out of the blue. And all those people being left behind are potential future enemies. Just trying to walk in their shoes for a second should make that abundantly clear. I probably would do my utmost to get back at those having killed one of my loved ones.

And sorry, I can't see much of a difference between chopping off heads and killing from a safe distance. Both are cowardly acts. The only difference I see is that one group is showered with distinctions and considered the spearhead of civilization and the other barbaric.