Remember when the hottest political potato was adjudicating the morality of drone warfare?

I mean, it's almost quaint to think about now, but drone warfare was a major controversy

until the public decided we had bigger fish to fry.

Armed drones were first used in late 2001 and deployed from bases in Pakistan and Uzbekistan

to assassinate terrorist leaders inside Afghanistan

before our nation turned its lonely eyes in the sky to Iraq.

By 2009 the CIA claimed to have killed more than half of their most wanted Al-Qaeda suspects using

UAVs.

In 2013, in the first public death toll provided by the U.S. government for UAVs,

walking corporate lobbying opportunity in a senator suit,

Lindsey Graham claimed there had been 4,700 casualties at the hands of UAVs.

It is an astounding number, and that was six years ago. The government isn't inclined to update us so who knows the number at this point.

We are told that the use of drones saves lives and by removing American soldiers from the battlefield it's hard to argue that it's hard to argue that it doesn't at least

save the lives of frontline American soldiers. But while we can keep soldiers out of

physical harm's way we cannot remove them from a battle or from making

battlefield decisions.

Eye in the sky is about a decision to shoot a missile at a house where terrorists are preparing to kill scores of people with a suicide bomb.

Should the military decide to shoot the missile, a little girl selling bread outside would be killed.

It's a story told from three perspectives, the intelligence apparatus embodied by Helen Mirren's character, a colonel in the UK military with Alan Rickman playing her lieutenant general.

The Eyes in the Sky themselves, played by with Alan Rickman playing her lieutenant general.

The Eyes in the Sky themselves, played by MQ9 pilot Aaron Paul and his A1C,

she's the one aiming the camera and lasing the targets, and the targets they see on the ground in Kenya, living alongside

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