""Several former top military and intelligence officials — including
Stanley A. McChrystal, the retired general who led the Joint Special Operations
Command, which has responsibility for the military's drone strikes, and Michael
V. Hayden, the former C.I.A. director — have raised concerns that the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen are increasingly
targeting low-level militants who do not pose a direct threat to the United
States. In an interview with Reuters, General McChrystal said that drones could
be a useful tool but were "hated on a visceral level" in some of the places
where they were used and contributed to a "perception of American arrogance." ""