I wasn't only online sometimes during Obama's first term and I wasn't nearly as wise politically as I thought that I was. I don't remember when I started to really understand Obama's drone use was a way for an empire to exert its military power in a way that was (from the White House's perspective) super-low risk and super-low cost. Plus it was a way to field test matériel and tech stuff which the US government and the MIC always loves.