Because this has worked so enormously well over the past 25 years.
You can't think of a good reason to be against an extrajudicial drone strike that killed 11 people?
As someone previously very deeply involved on the ground with a lot of drone strikes, the type we do in the US are NOT cheap.
The alternative was loading up a Coast Guard ship with guys and sending them out to do an interdiction, seizing 11 men, processing them through the American legal system, incarcerating them for decades, and then eventually deporting them. I bet that costs a couple orders of magnitude more than a drone strike. Arguing cost is not compelling in the slightest.
This is the same excuse when cops go blazin' in - shoot first ask questions. Look up Amadou Diallo (1999) if you were not around then.
It's cheaper to drone strike a house with an alleged serial killer in it, than to arrest him and then give him a trial to see if he's actually a serial killer or not.
What about due process?
"Due process for me, not for thee"
Why would we prosecute people in international waters?
I guess the drone strike was fine though! /s
Human rights, law & order, war crimes
> Swat enough flies and they’ll alter their behavior.
They will, but flies are stupid. People are not, and they will not necessarily alter their behavior in a direction that you prefer.
These are not flies, these are fucking human beings.
That this even needs to be said is quite incredible.