It would almost be funny if it weren’t so grimly prophetic: The U.S. cannot catch a break with its unmanned aerial vehicles.

If the drones aren’t sick or falling from the sky, they’re (maybe) being downed in Iran by Iranian hackers or they’re (well, NATO’s drones, to be fair) blowing up at least 25 Pakistani soldiers along the border with Afghanistan. Officials in Pakistan were so incensed at this last blunder that late last month they ordered the Central Intelligence Agency, who’d been conducting drone strikes somewhat secretively out of Shamsi, an air base in western Pakistan, to get the hell out and fast.

And so they did. A final flight carrying American personnel and equipment flew out of Shamsi sometime Sunday.

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