My thoughts about using unmanned drones to kill terrorists are mixed.  Using unmanned drones can possibly help us save the lives of some of our brave military, however when we captured the terrorists as prisoners rather killing them  from the skies, we were able to gather  very valuable information from these  prisoners  that helped us to stop many other terrorist plans to attack us in the US or abroad. It was intelligence that was gathered from interrogations of prisoners that allowed us finally to find and kill Osama Bin laden.  By using drones we no longer have the opportunity to get information that could save many more American lives, both  military and civilian.   Unfortunately I don't think the Obama counter-terrorism strategy is very effective, which is another reason we should be capturing and interrogating prisoners to get helpful information we can use to better protect our homeland and citizens.

 I do not have a problem with the drones killing  American citizens who have become traitors and joined the terrorists and help kill  other Americans, but capturing can always help us gather  more information to help stop future planned attacks.

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