Drones are Bad?

I quote something I found in this weeks Economist.

"But Kurt Volker, a former American official close to John McCain, sees a bigger problem: drones have made killing too easy.  In a recent article he asked: "What do we want to be as a nation?  A country with a permanent kill list?  A country where people go to the office, launch a few kill shots and get home in time for dinner?  A country that instructs workers in high-tech operations centers to humans on the far side of the planet because some government agency determined that those individuals are terrorists?""

My answer to that is YES.  We are in War on Terror.  The enemy is committed to inflicting harm on Americans and Judaean-Christian Culture where ever it exists.  It is also committed to inflicting harm on Muslims who do not agree with them.  They are anarchist and they are dispersed operating in cells located in remote places.

We cannot put boots on the ground everywhere they exist, but we must combat them.

The article discusses the care taken to not kill innocent people although that does happen.

Drones are the most effective way to fight this War on Terror.  It is also the most cost effective way to do this and the least taxing on the troops we ask to defend us.

I am surprised that a John McCain advisor would question this.