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What Happens After the Drone Strike?
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

The killing of the top Taliban leader in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province will strain U.S.-Pakistani relations, but other effects are less predictable.
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Taliban Name New Leader After Confirming Predecessor Died in U.S. Strike
By MUJIB MASHAL

The leadership council of the Afghan militant group elevated Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada to take over after the death of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour.
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I think what set America apart from other countries for so many years was our Judeo-Christian belief in justice: that no one can just kill their way to success, but that it takes reason and hard work -- and assimilating American values.

When we pretend it is easy, that it is a birthright or something that can be earned via reparations or inheriting from ancestors long since past, we underestimate the strength of the American people living here today. Reason and justice will always beat Might Makes Right, and faith in one's values will overcome any slaughter.

Our enemies understand that too.

Why can't we have a defensive-only foreign policy that recognizes this? Was the latest Taliban leader such an immediate threat to America's national security that we are justified in invading the air space of a sovereign nation to assassinate him?

It will be ... interesting to see how Americans in the future react when other countries use drones here to justify taking out the "baddies" and the assorted collateral.

Our day will come...
You can't put these things back in the box.

Really, who needs justice and trials of reason when we've got the technology to kill at whim, and no second thoughts morally about going where ever we want to use it...