&gt;<i>it counts any unknown males killed in the strike as enemy. It doesn&#x27;t use that assumption to do the strike.</i><p>Imagine for a moment that someone (be it some foreign agency, US police, army or whoever) did the same in America, <i>to American citizens</i>. Would you be outraged by your explanation?<p>&quot;Hey, it&#x27;s not like they&#x27;re targetting them specifically. They&#x27;re just <i>deciding that they were all enemy combatants post-factum</i>.&quot;