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nd ethical dilemma for lawyers at the White House and the State Department. The administration lawyers — many of whom had been outspoken critics of George W. Bush's policies against terrorists — spent months figuring out how to justify the killing of a U.S. citizen. By the summer of 2010, two attorneys in the J

"It's democratized information on the battlefield," says Daniel Goure, a national security expert who served in the Defense Department during both Bush administrations. "It's like a reconnaissance version of Twitter." Drones have also radically altered the CIA, turning a civilian intelligence-gathe

overt drone strikes, five times the total George W. Bush ordered during his eight years in office. Al

anded that Iran return the drone, but the damage was done. "It was like when someone from Apple left a prototype of the next iPhone at a bar," says Peter Singer, a defense specialist at the Brookings Institute and the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. "It was

individual differences, and normality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 94, 74-85; Cushman, F., Knobe, J., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2008). Moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments. Cognition, 308, 281-289; Haidt, J., & Baron, J. (1996). Social roles and the moral judgment

d to foreseeable atrocities. Sometimes our desires are toxic, as when we plot to extinguish a culturally distinctive group. On one reading, President George W. Bush may well have initiated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as retaliatory attacks on terrorists, designed to protect American interests and well-being.

nctive group. On one reading, President George W. Bush may well have initiated the wars in Afghanistan a

sm are too high. This is, again, an issue of responsibility. It raises the question of when we ought to act. The distinguished Australian philosopher Peter Singer has spent a lifetime pushing this issue in the context of charitable donations, culminating most recently in his book The Life You Can Save. The key

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is befuddled and bemused. None of the experts look particularly smart at the moment. The realists' who counseled President Obama to forget George W. Bush's support of Middle Eastern democracy and cultivate our relations with regional despots like Hosni Mubarak, the Iranian mullahs and the younger Assad