Excuse Me, May I Please Have My Drone Back?

President Obama needs to watch some Bond movies.

You don't have your super-secret-state-of-the-art spy drone crash in Iraq and then say, "Hey, excuse me. A funny thing happened yesterday. Um, we crashed the drone we were using to spy on you guys and we noticed that you've been, like, putting it on television and we were wondering if we could have it back. It's really expensive and we'd rather you not put it on television for the Chinese to take a look at, because we have a few flying over them as well."

Here's how it is supposed to work, according to the world of Bond. The drone crashes in Iraq and president Aquavelvajad wheels it into his presidential crazy hanger and puts on his fake medals for "capturing" the drone. He poses standing in front of the drone for the television cameras. At that point, the drone goes "beep" and then about 10 pounds of C4 goes off and blows up the drone, president Ahmedinajad and his crazy hanger. "Beep"...BOOM! That's how it is supposed to go.

Really? Has no one in the CIA watched a Bond movie? This is pretty basic stuff. If you send a spy drone into another country, it needs to have some sort of a self destruct feature that goes off if the drone doesn't receive the magic code from headquarters every 12 hours. Sean Connery had this down in the 1960s and here we are in 2011 and all we can do is politely ask the crazy Iranian president if we can pretty please have our drone back.

Maybe this is a result of our video game culture. The pilot who was remotely flying the drone probably thought to himself when he crashed it, "No problem. I've still got two more drone lives before game over."

So, President Obama, Joint Chiefs, SecDef, please watch some Bond movies and remember, Next time a drone goes down..."Beep"...BOOM!