[okasaki]

Sounds like bullshit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-contin...

> So-called “signature strikes”, targeting people whose behavior is assessed to be similar enough to those of terrorists to mark them for death, will continue, according to senior US officials.

> Human-rights groups have long denounced the practice – whose criteria can be as vague as killing “military-aged males” in regions where terrorists operate – as anonymous killing.

[revolvingocelot]

Looks like your article refers to aerial strikes. How on earth did you read "gunfire" and think "Predator drone"?

Not that the American military doesn't indiscriminately kill people, but you're free to look up RoE for ground troops and discussions thereof yourself.