What risks would there be without NATO ? <| sep |> Your comment makes it sound like he woke up one night with a halfremembered dream in his head , ran down into the situation room , grabbed a joystick and fired two Hellfire missiles into a swiss kindergarten , hoping to kill the guy from his dream . Then the parents sued , Obama yelled Fuck ! , called the judge , said Can you do me this favor , pretty please ? and the judge was like Aight , I got you , fam . I think it ' s much more likely that Obama was forced to make a decision much like Bill Clinton in the 90 s when the CIA wanted to kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan with cruise missiles but didn ' t weither to kill a person planning acts of terror likely to produce high numbers of casualties or if he should wait for more information before making a decision , at which point the terrorist planner might have already disappeared into the night . Apparently Obama decided to act and there was collateral damage . If you then sue the government , the whole case can probably be dismissed in order to protect the sources of intelligence leading to the drone strike , i . e . national security . It ' s a fucking giant clusterfuck of legal bullshit and government treaties and Presidential Memos and so on . My point is to say Obama got it into his head to kill someone makes it sound as if there was no real reason for Obama to want that person dead . But since 911 the rules for killing terrorists before they have a chance to enact terrorist acts have changed and I think this might be one of the cases that we have to disect and analyze as best as we can in order to make the fight against terrorism somewhat humane and lawful .