The Hit and Miss Record of U.S. Targeted Killing Programs
MURKY VERDICT
The practice is an essential part of the U.S. military’s tool kit, but the program’s critics argue that transparency is a necessary—and so far absent—part of the process.
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The rationale behind the most controversial tactic in America’s global war on terrorism—targeted killing of “high value” individuals—goes back far in history, all the way to the Talmud: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”
