"It's a terrible, terrible thing to take a life. But at the same time, the people we were going after - these are some of the most evil people in the world. They would have no qualms about coming in here and killing every single person - man, woman and child. And so yeah, we refer to them as targets."
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July 2017, In a discussion with NPR radio host Scott Simon about the morality of targeting terrorists with drones.
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