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We aren't going to send Seal Team 6 in to knife everyone we want to kill around the world.

Drone strikes are more accurate than F14's bombing buildings, and also safer for American soldiers (since they can't get shot down), thus they are a gain vs. a loss in terms of US personnel killed and accidental collateral damage (but this is still not the ideal 0%).




> We aren't going to send Seal Team 6 in to knife everyone we want to kill around the world.

Sure, but that has to do with risk and reliability and cost effectiveness, not accuracy.


They are also cheaper, so the barrier to indiscriminate use is much lower.




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