Over the last week, local reports from Pakistan's wild northwest claimed that a drone strike last month so badly injured Hakimullah "Wacky Haki" Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's latest leader (perhaps the Taliban top-cat closest to al Qaeda), that he later died.
Another drone strike took out his predecessor last year: The Pakistani Taliban is losing CEOs faster than Detroit. Over the past few years, we've nailed two-thirds of the terrorists on our to-do list in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area. That's great news.
This hurts terrorist morale (although it won't stop the true zealots), disrupts planning and eliminates talent. Killing senior terrorists makes America and the world a safer place.
Yeah, we may (theorectically) lose some intelligence by not waiting years for an uncertain opportunity to capture these terrorist kingpins . . . but there's no Gitmo issue or any warm bodies for Attorney General Eric Holder to hug.
And no dead terrorist has ever blown up an airplane.
As he says, give Hopey credit where credit is due.
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