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Pilot-less drones used to be fixtures in science fiction movies. Now they are stars of the US military arsenal.

Drones are currently playing a leading role in America’s shadow war in Pakistan. Unsurprisingly, many in Pakistan take a dark view of these dangerous weapons.

A governing body within Pakistan has called for the end of US drone strikes within the nation. They argue these drones hurt more than help America’s war on terror.

US relations with Pakistan are tense. Drone strikes have been known to kill innocent people thus further complicating relations with this important ally.

How do you stop drones killing the wrong people?

By offering CASH PRIZES, OF COURSE!!!

That’s right, The US Air Force is offering a contest to create a method of identifying age and gender of people at a distant. The winner of this contests gets a cool $20,000.

For poor bloggers like us, 20 grand sounds like a lot but Sam Biddle at Gizmondo notes

For a governmental entity that’s requesting $170 billion in funding next year, twenty grand is like something you give your daughter a dollar to go buy an ice cream cone.

Whether or not this is the solution, there is no doubt that the growth of unmanned vehicles on the battlefield is changing warfare.

England’s Ministry of Defense has gone so far as saying that drone ethics must be analyzed before we are on a “journey towards a Terminator-like reality.”

So what do you our readers think? Are drones making war cleaner? and is this a good thing?