We hear of late that President Barack Obama has a high "kill" rate, blowing up terrorists in Pakistan via the unmanned drone. Kudos to the President for taking out many of the world's best bad guys...the fewer the better.
But..........is it better to kill or capture these guys? After all, they have a wealth of terror-type info that our intel people could use in fighting the war on terror. Are we killing off valuable information that if not gleaned from our enemies could come back to bite us?
And one other thought here.....do I not recall one of the very first acts upon taking office President Obama outlawed such intelligence gathering methods as "waterboarding?" We take from this, and the drone activities, that in the current administration's mind, killing is ok, waterboarding is not.
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