Matthew Yglesias Tweets my cover story in today’s Foreign Policy, “Dead Terrorists Tell No Tales.”

In it, I point out that sending Predators to kill senior terrorist leaders is a less-than-optimal approach to protecting the nation, because a dead terrorist cannot tell you his plans for new attacks. When we located KSM in 2003, we didn’t send a Predator to kill him; we captured him alive and brought him in for interrogation. Same for Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi, Walid bin Attash, Riduan Isamuddin (aka “Hambali”), Bashir bin Lap, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, and others.

The information they provided the CIA helped break up terrorist cells that were planning to blow up the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and the U.S. Marine camp in Djibouti; explode seven airplanes flying across the Atlantic from London to cities in North America; and fly hijacked airplanes into Heathrow Airport, London’s financial district, and the Library Tower in Los Angeles. If we had killed them, there would likely be craters in Karachi, Djibouti, London, and Los Angeles to match the one in New York City.

Today, the Obama administration is no longer attempting to capture men like these alive; it is simply killing them. This may be satisfying, but it comes at a price. With every drone strike that vaporizes a senior al-Qaeda leader, actionable intelligence is vaporized along with him.

Yglesias’s response to these arguements? He Tweets “Hilarious, @marcthiessen is upset that Barack Obama is too good at killing terrorists.”

Which raises the question: Did he actually read the article? Or was 900 words too much for him to handle?

In any case, thanks for the Tweet, Matthew (and thanks to all your lefty friends for the RTs).