Executive Karma. I

The curious case of the penitent president

Controlling a Predator A+ in Afghanistan from a station at Amendola AFB in Puglia, Italy. The job takes five people, and you wonder if it's something like a bunraku puppet. Photo by David Cenciotti for The Aviationist, October 2011.

What follows is most of a post I wrote during the 2012 presidential campaign, by way of engaging the distress some folks we…