Robinson: Rand Paul "Did A Service By Making Us Focus On Drones"
EUGENE ROBINSON: My column for tomorrow is the first and probably only column I will ever write that's kind of complimentary to Rand Paul in that I think he did a service by making us focus on drones, by making us focus on this new technology for all the reasons that Senator Feinstein enumerated. They're very precise, they're very deadly. She called it the perfect assassination weapon and that's kind of what it is.
And even if you -- if it's ridiculous to think that a president of the United States is going to assassinate a citizen on U.S. soil with this technology, even if that's far-fetched, if it served -- if raising that question served to focus us on what's happening, not what's going to happen, but what's happening now on the fact that there are reasons to use these things domestically. (Hardball, March 7, 2013)
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