Drones are also employed, with the permission of the national governments (insofar as they exist) to hit al-Qaeda fighters in Mali, Somalia and Yemen, and quite possibly Colombia and the Philippines, their targets including personalities such as the ghastly Rashid Rauf or Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and al-Qaeda preacher.
Rather than letting the self-publicising Khans and Stafford Smiths of this world dominate the discussion, our government needs to spell out why this tactic is the best one available for societies which have become averse to large numbers of casualties being incurred in places our fellow citizens couldn't care less about. Sometimes the cold truth does not hurt.
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