If you took the time to think things through, the answer is already contained in my post. The US is not allowed to assassinate any US citizen it wants. If a c

If you took the time to think things through, the answer is already contained in my post. The US is not allowed to assassinate any US citizen it wants. If a criminal were hiding in Canada (or any other country with a reliable police force) we would just have that person arrested and extradited. Pakistan is not such a country. We therefore have a trial not to determine the criminal's guilt or innocence, but to determine if they pose enough of an active threat to warrant military action.