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Would like to know if all approve of flying drones into sovereign countries with intention to assassinate a said “bad guy” without:
Due process
Official declaration of war
Approval by sovereign gov’t that we’ve not declared war with to assassinate one of their citizens.

Are these drone assassination operations military or intelligence operations?

HUNDREDS of innocent civilians have killed in mistaken “collateral damage” events.
Terrorists get Huge recruitment boosts from reports and on the scene images of charred women and children.

*We really gotta think thru the exact scope and objectives as lethal military drone use expands to other nation states.

Russia, China and other potential adversaries are taking careful note of the precedent we set for eliminating individuals.

A very likely scenario in the near future may have a foreign gov’t launch a drone assassination of a citizen on US soil because of a war crimes accusation.

Not to mention US gov’t drone use against it’s own citizen “belligerents” (terrorists) on our own soil...

RE: “Too restrictive, a drone attack should be fine against any terrorist target so long as there is judged a high likelihood that SOME terrorist(s) will be present. To require “near certainty” that one particular target is present is to demand more knowledge that is going to be available in many plausible cases. As long as we are killing jihadists, that should be enough.”