Attack of the drones

It was important that the United Nations General Assembly achieved what the Security Council, condemning the Syrian regime for the near daily massacres it inflicts on its own people.  For more than 130 member governments to vote in favour of the Arab League plan against a miserly twelve who oppose it, heaps burning coals on the heads of the Russian and Chinese governments.  However, it should not be used as moral sanction for overt military action.  Before the vote took place, one person wrote a letter to The Daily Telegraph advocating “send in the drones” in order to eviscerate Bashar al-Assad’s command-and-control structure.  Notwithstanding the legally grey area that drones occupy, I don’t see how deploying Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and Iain Duncan Smith will bring Damascus to its knees, let alone making Assad cease and desist.