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I think, at the time, the idea was how someone in an air-conditioned room thousands of miles away was carrying out killing strikes. It was a further removal from humanity. Not that having a pilot inside would have made a difference. To them everyone would look like ants, its not like they ever looked in the face of anyone they were shooting. If I remember right there was some controversy over a helicopter pilot gunning down civilians during W's Iraq War, so kind of a moot point aside fromt the fact that the person in the room isn't themselves at risk.