if abraham lincoln had a drone (i don't know with a time machine or whatever)

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36. well yes it is a completely theoretical discussion

but only pointless if you find engaging in that theoretical discussion to hold no value, even for entertainment's sake. and that is certainly cool too. you don't have to.

now the irony of lincoln being assassinated needs to be looked upon in this context (as per the op, lincoln with drones.) when booth killed lincoln hostilities had ceased and the long road of Reconstruction, occupation and the eventual writing of new state constitutions were under way. in other words, lincoln was not the commander of a belligerent fighting force in the field. booth was a criminal in virginia, to where he fled, just as much as he was in the northern states that didn't try to secede. lincoln killing jefferson davis with a drone would arguably be the taking out of the commander in chief of the opposing forces. that, i believe is even under today's international law a perfectly rational and permissible thing.

edited to say no the south doesn't have drones in my scenario. jut the federal government with a couple to use putting down an insurrection in the 1860s, which lincoln got with a time machine.