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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Er those were both really specific strikes with a clear identifiable person as the goal, to be captured or killed. Are you saying that there should be a US military presence but it should be limited to, effectively, assassinations?
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Not to mention that those "pin point operations" involved huge scale wars first to eliminate the security/military presence around those targets first.
They didn't just go in and kill Saddam Hussein. They had a war first and destroyed the army around him.
Realistically, you can't just send in a few ground troops into a group like Boko Haram and expect to just successfully kill the leaders without casualties. That's, in fact, the main reason why drone strikes are so heavily relied upon.