So you would rather US troops go to a foreign country, capture a terrorist, fly him here, give him a lawyer and a day in court? A nice prison cell with three meals a day?
You think that is better than a drone? BOOM! Terrorist dead. No US soldier in harm’s way. No long trial and housing at taxpayers expense. You don’t like that system?
1. You make prison sound like a bed and breakfast. It’s not. Especially the federal ones where terrorists go. 23 hour lockdown; never see the sun. Most of these folks go insane before long.
2. Drones are a cowardly way of waging war. There is no honor in it. You’ve got someone sitting on their butt in an air conditioned room in Langley, VA or some such place not knowing or caring if the drone actually kills a “made” jihadi or his wife and kids. These drone strikes are a wonderful recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.
Apparently you missed the point of the utter hypocrisy of Obama. And the to your question, in some case it is better to capture terrorist for intel and not, they don’t get the same rights as US citizens.