but war never goes as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, thanks for being with us. let s talk about this. there is a balancing act i still can t quite figure out when i think about this. one way of looking at this is saying that over the last two years because of the drone program we ve had we ve taken out an awful lot of bad guys out there. we have put a real dent in al qaeda because of this and have done that while paying a much lower cost in terms of casualties on our side than we normally or used to have been the case. that s absolutely the case. that s why this is hard it is a hard issue. it is not really a democratic versus republican issue, it really hasn t been and really shouldn t be. i i think that we can t escape the what i see as moral questions, as legal questions. this is war by assassination. and i think we ought to figure out what we think about that. we have a law against assassinating foreign leaders. this isn t quite the same thing but i m
foreign policy about counterterrorism. they are about how we choose to do war. and obama s first and second were referendums on the bush wars. and this election in a way will be a referendum on what president obama has done how he has conducted war. in some cases convertly that might not put boots on the ground but they can never be error free. where accidents will happen as we found out this week. if all goes as planned there are only terrorists and no civilians in the vehicle or object being targeted but war never goes entirely as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, thanks for being with us. let s talk about this. there is a balancing act i still can t quite figure out when i think about this. one way of looking at this is saying that over the last two years because of the drone program we ve had we ve taken