Yep and of course. You are right.

But factor in a few issues, if you will.

What’s the cost if troops were sent in? Extraction in the case of US citizens or is it less risky with an illegal ‘extra-judicial assassination’?

How much had drone technology grown during Obama’s tenure? Did it make sense to use it versus other methods?

The case of US citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his son comes to mind, despite the fact that neither had ever been charged with any crime.

And rightfully, the ACLU sued him. Twice. Zero accountability.

Of course, it is ironic that Trump ordered a manned raid on a Yemeni compound. One service member was killed and some 30 civilians, one of whom was al-Awlaki’s granddaughter. See: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

Lastly, I am with you on many accounts. The Obama led destabilization of Libya. What a disaster and why? Clinton was part of that debacle.

The reason? Not to remove a dictator, under whose aegis universal secular non-gender based education flourished, with a literacy rate higher than some Western societies, no gender-based doctors, universal free health care, with sanitary health conditions and an infrastructure the envy of many nations.

Nope. Obama and team removed him because Gaddifi wanted to be free of the US petrodollar. He was covertly trying, unsuccessfully it appears, to organize a pan-African gold based currency.

What was the cost of that fiasco? Desperate seemingly unending ‘immigration’ to Italy and Europe. Spread of Muslim extremism, captured Libyan arms shipments reaching Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. US Servicemen deaths.

Don’t get me wrong.

Any President at the helm of an empire has to get his hands dirty, all the while spouting tomes of hypocrisy, he just doesn’t have to act like a grade five schoolyard bully.