Predator Drones Have Yet To Prove Their Worth On Border

latimes.com:

The nine unmanned aircraft are expensive to operate but their results are unimpressive, critics say. But one official says the criticism is shortsighted.

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Comments

[jonesengr]

09:13 AM on 04/30/2012

Our spy satellites have the ability to read a license plate from space.................We are told.

Why aren't we using that technology? I know of no more urgent need than the border issues.

[noodlepips]

08:39 AM on 04/30/2012

Coming to your neighborhood soon. Don,t look up they might suspect you of being a terrorist and bomb the whole block.

[Ivo Dude]

06:04 PM on 05/01/2012

Aside from the ethical and legal issues, who knows what Drone blowback will look like.

We taught the Taliban to use rocket launchers against the Soviets. And when you think about it the planes that flew into the World Trade Center were esentially "Taliban Drones."

[dterraman]

06:08 AM on 04/30/2012

it will be easier to extract money from Americans, there are building code infractions, parking tickets, speeding tickets.....all kinds of ways to make money to pay for the growing government

[ddokken69]

05:15 AM on 04/30/2012

Now tell me does this REALLY surprize anyone???

[SamEllison]

03:01 AM on 04/30/2012

They'll be used to keep us in soon.

[DK111]

12:38 AM on 04/30/2012

Anyone who has ever driven on I-10 in AZ and NM can see the low tech unmanned blimps that are used to patrol the borders. These blimps are far less expensive than drones and can stay up a lot longer time. Drones are an overkill on the border where there are no hostile forces who can shoot down the blimps.

[breakingpoint]

12:09 AM on 04/30/2012

they'vemurdered 200 children under Obama's watch

[KIVPossum]

12:02 AM on 04/30/2012

The US would do more to protect itself if it would pull the troops out of the middle east and put on the border.

[Ted Martin]

11:40 PM on 04/29/2012

Well, then put some missiles on them or arm them with 50 caliber machine guns....

[itzfatcat]

11:21 PM on 04/29/2012

Well let us arm them and let them blast away.

[Mailman]

11:56 PM on 04/29/2012

That's like using a tank for traffic control.

[zilden]

01:35 AM on 04/30/2012

Hey, the traffic would be controlled.

[kostya]

10:50 PM on 04/29/2012

Inside the Beltway, the term is "controlling the operational space." It's a little Newspeaky, but if you sell unmanned vehicles, that's the key phrase that keeps the government is buying.

[ironchefjay2]

07:12 AM on 04/30/2012

Well the people inside the beltway are idiots.

[Moti]

10:43 PM on 04/29/2012

Yes, disappointing, I took mine back to the dealer.

[Jmac645]

10:22 PM on 04/29/2012

I am sorry, but what we need here small fully armed attack helicopters and lots of boots on the ground. There are many unemployed americans who could be trained to perform border security.

[rollintthunder]

07:45 AM on 04/30/2012

The helicopters and soldiers will be here soon enough...but it won't be for border security!

[Marcin A Mazurek]

09:54 PM on 04/29/2012

Really? You mean the high price isn't part of the disappointment that our tax dollars pay for?
How about totally blowing foreign relations out of the water?
Or being pretty inaccurate?
I mean, obviously, if people don't have experience using them they're going to be bad - but come on - we have a social culture that is at least existent in the military - Gamers. Have them do it.

[Liteworkr]

09:29 PM on 04/29/2012

Congress has approved 30,000 drones to be used right here in the USA. You people better check and see what legislation has passed.
As we awake to the scam that is our government they are installing a police state to keep power.

We are in a race between the masses waking up and the ruling class installing their control grid.

[mabinog]

11:02 PM on 04/29/2012

the right has shown no problem with selling its freedom down the river to implement a right wing ideological victory - Bush's re-election after 9/11 and the absolutist demand to stop illegals.

[dterraman]

06:12 AM on 04/30/2012

with all the help they need from the "left"