im from america, i work in the defense industry, and i read the article. in the article it stated that the US government released that the grandson wasnt the target for the restaurant strike. whether you choose to believe that or not i do.

now, if he wasnt the target of the strike, and he just happened to be in the company of someone else that was a target, and his farther was killed 2 weeks prior, that would lend me to believe that he was mixed up in something he shouldn't of been to start with, but of course this is pure speculation.

a drone strike is far cheaper, far easier, and risks far less american lives. this aint Zero Dark Thirty. the only reason actual military personnel were sent in after osama was because they needed proof that he was there, and killed, in addition to the fact that they believed this to be a long term residence, not a lunch meeting. otherwise a drone would of blown that place up too, or more likely a B-2.

he US intelligence services doesnt just randomly ad people to the kill list and then send a drone and kill them that same day. Most of the people on these lists have a large amount of evidence against them and are extremely hard to find. when intel actually does surface on their whereabouts its extremely rare that 72 hours is available to bring in, brief, and send in an intelligence/special forces/capture team. this isnt 24, or Jason Bourn. Operations like that take time, and time that usually means the expiration of the known whereabouts of the subject.

put the shoe on the other foot. that if this kids dad, and he were planning an attack, and the US kept putting off the drone strikes because they wanted to capture them. what if they didnt get them soon enough and the strike went through and americans, civilians, died in said attack. would you be complaining about then? that the government didnt act when they had the opportunity to?

i assure you that im not insane, and i also asure you that i know a pretty significant amount about the drones used in these strikes and the logistics behind them. you can keep your bleeding heart. id rather have a proactive government. collateral damage sucks, but its better than the alternative imo.