THE CHIEF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT for ABC news, Martha Raddatz, delivers herself of the following opinion concerning American fighting forces and drone warfare:

Traditionally, when a nation went to war, it had to invest its blood and treasure, but today’s joystick-wielding drone pilots can launch a missile strike from here at home, then hop in the minivan to meet the wife and kids for dinner. War couldn’t get any more impersonal.

And this is bad? Perhaps Ms. Raddatz should remind herself of this quotation from General George S. Patton: “No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.”

Or buy a burqa.