The US, so very proud of its stealth technology and its leading edge technology in the development of unmanned aircraft, managed to lose one to the enemy last week. I see the news blip that the US has asked Iran to return it...please. Riiiiiight. The President of the United States is more likely to find Santa Claus coming down his chimney here in a couple of weeks then we are ever to see even the twisted, hacksawed remains of our precious unmanned spy ship.
When I first heard the report of the loss I wondered why they don't equip the thing so that, in a scenario such as the one at hand, you push a button and the thing self-destructs. Apparently no one thought about the need to do that. I would think that after losing a rather expensive Blackhawk helicopter or two the thought might have crossed someone's mind.
Thinking back a few years they might have taken a page from Agent 86. Maxwell Smart may have bumbled into losing the thing behind enemy lines but he would have had the means to destroy it-- and I wager he would have singlehandedly won the war as well as been home in time to say goodnight to Agent 99. Mel Brooks. Buck Henry: Please report to the Pentagon.
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