It's probably because a lot of people see Donald Trump as a meme, thus memes seem to explain him. In practice Donald Trump is merely so brazen in everything he does that he seems like a good choice for memeing.
It's genuinely silly, but at the same time I don't know many people who have done serious analyses of whether memes really are contributing, or are just a distraction. Politico actually did one a while back, under the title
World War Meme.
This is because most people who gravitate toward positions of power are sociopaths.
I'm both mildly annoyed at this,
and think you may have more of a point than you realize. Did you see my earlier arguments in this thread? I've been making a very specific case for this
With that out of the way, what compelling reason is there for people in positions of power to NOT find the idea of 'push-button style, easy to use death robots that never question a kill order' gloriously desirable? I sure cannot think of one.
I dunno, drones are pretty neat, for the reasons you mention and more (no body bags coming home!).
the problem is that there is no shortage of people willing to sell everyone else out for a temporary advantage. (prisoner's dillema, meets tradgedy of the commons.)
You'll remember that the point of the prisoner's dilemma is precisely that the right answer
is to defect. That's the logical thing to do. There's no way to justify cooperation from a logical perspective: that's why it's a dillema. In an
iterated dilemma things are different.