Killing From the Sky Is No Way to Defeat Terrorists

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- It’s clear the Barack Obamaadministration needs to answer for failing to secure the U.S.Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in aSeptember terrorist attack. Yet the accountability debate isgetting in the way of the more important discussion the Benghaziattack should provoke.

That’s a debate over whether the U.S. has the rightcounterterrorism strategy to start with. The administrationclaims its elimination of al-Qaeda leaders using drones andspecial operations forces has crippled the organization. Has it,really?