&gt; there are other actors with geopolitical interests of their own who would cheerfully move in to fill the resulting vacuum<p>So the argument for perpetual and unwinnable warfare is - if we don&#x27;t someone else will? You think that&#x27;s worth the live&#x27;s of US service members and the inevitable collateral damage inflicted in war zones? I feel like I&#x27;m missing part of the picture.<p>Personally, a better way of combating radical islam has less to do with drones and more to do with education and opportunity.