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I don't think that is what is being debated.
On the contrary, this is precisely what people have come in here to argue. We've had fools claiming that special forces raids are the end-all-be-all way to fix collateral damage concerns ; as though invading other countries, landing armed forces there, shooting up the place, and then extracting them didn't come with it's own host of problems (to include collateral damage).
Drone Strikes do save lives, they do allow us to engage in the enemy in ways that minimize friendly and civilian casualties, and they are effective at not allowing the enemy to continue to launch attacks from a position of safety.
Which, again, is why even Barack Obama has expanded their mission.