"Just as ruthless and indifferent to the rule of law as his predecessor." Ouch.

[TheKentuckian]

50. 9/11 has largely become a stalking horse anyway

Mostly we are killing "combatants" and "insurgents" anyway, you know folks with no activity or intent of activity until we showed up.

These folks don't even have the same concept of a central government as we understand it, we are invaders.
The Yemen situation may well be even more messy. It appears that we are in the middle of a civil war and taking the government's side to have a partner in our own efforts.

How many Al Quedas are we trying to seed? The destruction of Hiroshima would be easier to grasp to a survivor than one of this mess. Your husband and babies or your mother and father or your new bride or your best friend are in pieces from death from above and you've done nothing, your country is not at war nor did your nationals participate in the attack said to justify the assaults. In fact there has not been a single bullet fired at the country the attackers came from.
What the hell is the expected outcome? How are these folks going to feel?

Naturally, they become "insurgents", what would we do? No better what would are we SUPPOSED to do? Wouldn't you be pretty much a traitor or an accomplice if you weren't?
Don't want to be attacked by insurgents? Leave.

Shit, a motherfucker becomes a "combatant" for being between 16-45 and being born male and getting killed.