"Then you're collateral damage."

Collateral damage from drones is FAR less than from indiscriminate bombing or from invading with batallions of troops.
I suggest that if we totally stopped any attempts to eliminate Al-Quaida leaders, and just hoped they'd stop sending suicide bombers to do us and out allies damage, people would soon say, "What's the matter with you people? Are you going to just allow them to carry on until there's another 9/11?"

It is never good to feel like we NEED to kill enemies.... war- or even police actions and drone strikes- is nasty, unpleasant business. I just wonder what folks would suggest we do? Invite them to tea and ask politely how we have offended them?

A small % of Islamic fundamentalists have decided that we in the West are "The Great Satan"..or something similar. Actions based on hate are a self-fulfilling hypothesis. We can't simply ignore them, and they don't seem willing to give up their Holy War.