“Which I suppose it should be; if you’re going to kill someone, you shouldn’t be insulating yourself from the process. That was always my objection to the use of drones: warfare ought to be immediate; it ought to be bloody, to be close combat. You should be forced to witness, to feel, each and every impact. You shouldn’t be allowed to put it at arm’s length.”

“Which I suppose it should be; if you’re going to kill someone, you shouldn’t be insulating yourself from the process. That was always my objection to the use of drones: warfare ought to be immediate; it ought to be bloody, to be close combat. You should be forced to witness, to feel, each and every impact. You shouldn’t be allowed to put it at arm’s length.”

— Lexie Elliott