Guest Editorial

Editorial: All I Want for Xmas Is My Lost Drone Back. Dear Santa, This holiday I could ask for economic recovery, or a lifeline for the health care overhaul, or that old chestnut world peace. But what I really want for Christmas is my drone back. I've been a good boy. Oh sure, I know there are inherent risks in sending out a top-secret surveillance aircraft - look at what happened with that U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union back in 1960. But this RQ-170 Sentinel drone has important stuff on it, and darn it, it's mine. I asked that mean Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, to give it back. He won't play nice, saying things like "no one returns the symbol of aggression to the party that sought secret and vital intelligence related to the national security of a country. Now Iranian officials want me to say sorry first for flying it 140 miles into their airspace. No way. I recommend them for the Naughty List. Sure, I could order an airstrike and try to take out the drone before Iran figures out all the cool stuff in it and either puts it to use or sells it to China, but that might knock me off the Nice List. Not going there. So Santa, if there's room in your sled as you go over Tehran, could you pick up my drone and tuck it in? Please? Barack Obama This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers. .