Tell me again in 10 years how drones have ended the war. lol that is very very very optimistic thinking.
I have np with police shooting some guy who is holding a gun to someones head threatening to kill them. I do see a difference when you lob a missle through the guys home and kill him, his wife, kid etc because you believe he has or is plotting to kill someone. One is done when lives are on the line the other is done when no lives are in immediate danger.
What happens if they get the wrong person on the kill list? Can't happen? hmm kinda like the WMD in Iraq?
If we are talking a case by case situation where they go OK we found this guy "Bob" hes at X place, only chance we got to get him with no risk to us is a drone strike, then I can sorta understand. But to have a list where regardless if you can take them alive, you just go in and kill, I think a line has been crossed that should not be crossed.
You keep talking about drones etc. Yet OBL was killed not with drones but by people on the ground. They were ordered to KILL, to ASSASINATE. If Obama had said. Ok go in there and take him alive if you can, but don't risk your lives kill if necesssary, I'd understand, it is reasonable, He didn't he said KILL.