War on Terror Should Focus on Captures, Not Killings
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The debate over U.S. PresidentBarack Obama’s nomination of John Brennan to be director of theCentral Intelligence Agency has become a debate on how to runthe war on terrorism.
The focus right now is on Brennan’s role, as the WhiteHouse’s counterterrorism adviser, in the government’s “targetedkilling” strategy, carried out mostly by drones but also inspecial operations such as the one that caught Osama bin Laden.