What if we were drone targets?

Anti Krogian terrorist target 34th and 8th Ave Starbucks
Target locked,  fire when ready...

Letters to the editor, June 13

Several recent articles have described how our president and his committee decide which people are terrorists and who should be attacked by a drone aircraft ("Death by drone a disturbing trend," Editorial, Insight, June 10).
Many have been murdered. At least one was an American citizen, which counters the idea that a person is presumed innocent until proved guilty at a trial. Isn't it an act of war when a government of one country kills people in another country ?
Let us imagine a time in the future when another country also has drones. That country decides that a citizen of this country is opposed to its government and is therefore a terrorist.
It sends its drone to San Francisco and blasts the alleged terrorist as well as several others who happen to be in the coffee shop at that moment. How will we react, knowing that this is a routine action by our government?
Burt Rodgers, Walnut Creek

We'll rue the day

Scarcely less troubling than the opacity of the process by which drone-death targets are chosen is the administration's arrant flouting of the sovereignty of the several countries recipient of these unbidden attacks. The day likely will come, as it did concerning nuclear weaponry, when mastery of this latest technical marvel will not be ours alone, and we will rue this unfortunate precedent.
Richard Boyce , San Francisco    READ MORE