The U.S. deliberately undertook a successful mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto in WW2.
Yes - in a similar environment today the idiots would be asking:
1) Was his plane given a chance to land so the Admiral could surrender?
2) He couldn’t have possibly been in command of troops while the plane was flying! So he might have only been a “figure-head” and thus not a legal combatant!
3) His Geneva rights were violated by shooting down the plane!
4) Releasing the video of his plane being shot down is a violation of his human dignity.
etc....
Good point!