Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
You have Mullah Omar on the drone's downlink feed......and a Hellfire hanging on a hardpoint. Do you give the go signal or let the moment slip? Why?
Hit him. Given the strategy pursued by the Taliban, under his apparent leadership and their continuing use of coercion to frustrate, if not defeat an internal peace compromise, do it.

Now the really difficult option, how do we explain the hit? To the primary audience, which remains the Afghans in Afghanistan. I'd suggest "He was our shared enemy leader, he'd been given chances and always chose violence. We had had enough".