So it turns out we don't need to drop bombs and level entire buildings to take out terrorists

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The mission to take out Osama Bin Laden was by any standard highly successful. We were able to take out the world's most wanted terrorist in a fortified compound without a single American life lost and aside from Bin Laden's wife no innocent bystanders being killed.

This of course is in great contrast to what we usually do which is identify a target using flimsy sources then bomb the shit out of that target and hope that you don't kill too many innocent men, women, and children, which seems to turn out to be the case more often than not. Upwards of 1,000 people died in Pakistan last year as a result of our drone attacks, many of them innocent civilians.

The Navy SEALs is the most advanced military unit on the planet. The mission to kill Bin Laden only emphasized that. Along with the SEALs we have many other highly trained units in our military. And with such highly trained soldiers there should never be a reason to drop bombs on populated areas simply to take out one target.

After the attack on Bin Laden leaders from countries all around the Middle East lined up to congratulate the United States for a job well done. One thing that made it politically possible for these leaders to say that is because we didn't kill a bunch of innocent people just to take out one target.

Having very little regard for innocent lives when targeting terrorists does nothing to help our cause and is highly counter productive in fighting terrorism. Not to mention highly immoral. This should be an opportunity to review how we deal with terrorist targets, if we can get our special forces in and out of a city in the middle of Pakistan we should be capable of doing the same in the border region where most of these drone attacks take place.

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