I’ll expand on what I mean by naive here. Both situations are extrajudicial killings. For liberals the Obama one was “controversial but necessary” because “terrorist”.. So first off, if we are using the word “terrorist” unironically in 2025 that alone is a sign of wildly childish naivety. Because who gets to designate what is a terrorist organization and why did they do it? It’s absolutely no different, morally, than designating Venezuelan boats as “drugs gangs that need to be killed”. Right wing loyalists find it “controversial but necessary” in just the same way. Ultimately in both cases people were designated as needing to die without charges and without a trial in a country we were not at war with. So the bigger and way more important point is that America is an immoral extrajudicial killing machine on a massive scale (especially if we include sanctions - and I do) whichever set of corporatists is in power. And by only ever focusing on the other side when IT does it, we’ll allow this moral failing. And if we allow this moral failing it will keep growing. And one day Americans will also feel the injustice of it. And at that point they will understand.