I believe most right thinking people in this world are terrified of the military power of the USA. Even I, being a US citizen, am starting to become very concerned with our military weapons and their usage as they seem far more likely to be turned on us then our enemies. Call me a nut job if you want but we are all just a proclamation away from being "domestic terrorists".
Yes, our military (I'm also a US citizen) has a whole lot of things that do bad, painful, often fatal things. They're scary for any number of reasons, one of which is certainly the possibility of their use against us.
However, this is in no way limited to the US. Many, many governments -- possibly most -- have similarly awful and destructive, if not as technologically advanced, ways to harm anyone and/or everyone in range.
It would make more sense to be afraid specifically of the US military if there were no one else out there throwing around this kind of power. As people who don't want to be shot at, blown up, or dissolved instantaneously by hordes of angry electrosquitoes, singling out the US as the main subject of our trepidation seems a bit arbitrary.
Instead of the current war/combative/investigative tasks that they have, I hereby demand all the drones be re-commissioned and given the following tasks:
- Keeping track of the forest cover and water resources
- Geographical surveys to identify use & misuse of resources
- Track and identify poachers and loggers
- In cities, keep an eye on the air pollution and particulate levels
- Identify factories emitting pollutants above the limits
- Tracking inclement weather
- Attend to humanitarian needs in disaster situations
Post-9/11 "counter-terrorism" has been almost entirely a pretext under which to develop domestic counter-insurgence. Future political instability is likely due to a number of factors and they may be preparing to maintain federal power in the face of this.
