I finished trusting politicans, Presidents, and pundits a long time ago. Here's the thing, I value human life, and we have not been valuing human life for the last decade in this war. Middle Eastern or American, they will still be called collateral damage and some here will say they should have known better than to be "there." The only difference is that their families might get a condolence letter on White House stationery.

There are many things I will defend our President over. This is not one of them. Trust is another issue altogether. I think you would have been better served if you had replaced "trust" with "think."

For some, at least. Never assume.

On a related note... my husband worked on prototyping parts for drones years ago. I remember him coming home and saying he was worried about them, and what would happen when/if they were put into service (they were before he died). His concern was that (like many of us) it would make the killing of innocent people easier for the government, military, and the American people to wash away...

...he would be sick today.

I trust Obama for a lot of things but when it comes to decisions that are totally lacking in real logical and specific points, ambiguous positions that have no knowns, trust becomes of little value either in the positive or in the negative where any person is concerned. In this case the word is useless to me. Trust invokes future action. I can't know the future nor do I have enough information to make even the slightest prediction.

I passed on the poll question... I have no use for the senseless death of any human being, but even that gut feeling is moot where presidential decisions are concerned.

I expect him to do as he's been doing. If a citizen moves to Yemen, decides to join al-Qaeda and ends up getting droned, those are the breaks.

My concern is not that the government can do it, they've always done this sort of thing one way or another, it's the unanswered who and why about it all that bugs me. The drones are merely a simplified, inelegant and ignoble version of an ages old concept.