What does it mean about the world when the US president can order the killing of a US citizen anywhere in the world, but armed forces can’t kill known pirates on the high seas?
It means that the world is upside-down !!
Long ago there was a saying “scratch any Englishman and right below the surface you’ll find a pirate.” I give all the credit in the world to the Royal Marines doing their job, but their society is no longer the one that carved an empire out of “savage lands.”