I'm sorry but that's just wrong. Nothing fucking justifies killing a 16-year-old American citizen, accused of no crime, without due process. NOTHING.
Just saying. This post is largely about how people in the war-driven countries are perceived by Americans as just abstract figures, instead of real people, thus, making it easy for them to be pro-war.
EDIT:
To the comment below: You know exactly what I meant when I said it - the us vs. them mentality.
Case in point: Latvian hacker about to be extradited to the US for allegedly committing computer crimes. Guess what? U.S. has not supplied a single item of evidence about anything - they just know that he did it.
This, as we can see, spills over to other departments of the u.s. government - fighting terrorism, national security, etc.
Seems like they just come up with random crap to do for the fun of it.
The point here is that there are cases when bad people have intent to do harm and need to be stopped in ways faster than a court of law can individually approve. Whether this is one of those cases is the real question.
step 1. killing non-Americans outside, accused of no crime, without due process - ok
step 2. killing Americans outside, accused of no crime, without due process - so-so, the public seems to be getting used to it
step 3. ... (hint : not a profit)