Why did the USA drone kill that Pakistan Taliban leader the day before he was due to start peace talks with Pakistan?

What gives America the legal right to take action in peaceful countries like Pakistan?

Well the Government of Pakistan does. They have an agreement. Of course the Pakistani politicians make a lot of protest noise when the strikes happen but that is just them playing politics to the local masses who are anti-western with Taliban sympathies. But be assured if the Pakistani elites wanted the strikes to end they would end. Pakistan is quite capable of shooting down these drones any tine they like.

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There is no agreement with Pakistan. What makes you say that?

If there where no agreement the Pakistan government would immediately shoot down the drones. It's easy to shoot them down, It's not like they are super stealth aircraft with amazing defensive features. In fact the Iranians where about to hack one and take over it's controls and they landed it in Iran.

There was some kind of informal agreement with the previous Pakistani military led goverment. The current government is against drone strikes. Why should Pakistan have to shoot down US drones?

All nations have the right to shoot down foreign military aircraft intruding into their airspace and carrying out strikes. The fact that is it not happening in Pakistan when they could do so easy shows that there is still an agreement between the elites of Pakistan and the US authorities. If there was no agreement then the US would not be carrying out the strikes with impunity as they are now. They have drones on station over the rejoin 24 hours a day. Waiting for targets of opportunity to arise. The current Government of Pakistan may be making negative comments in the presence of the general public of Pakistan but clearly they are making different sounds when they are in private contact with the Authorities of the USA.

The US drones are based in neighbouring Afghanistan. They fly along the borders and only go into Pakistan airspace to carry out their strikes. Imagine what would happen if Pakistan shot one down. Things are not that simple.

What would happen? Nothing would happen to Pakistan. They would shoot down one or two over a day or so and then the flights would end. And you should listen to the BBC report of the last interview recorded with the now dead Taliban leader. The reporter was petrified because the Buzzing sound of the Drones was a constant hum day and night in the area where he met and interviewed the commander.

Which is exactly my point, really. The drones are feared by most people. They cause civilian casualities too, obviously. I understand the current Prime Minister of Pakistan is seeking a meeting with Obama to request the withdrawal of the drones.

Well inducing fear in ones enemy is a tactic of war. So the drones are doing the same thing as the IED's just in a different landscape. And if the current elites of Pakistan decide they want to end the strikes and make a new agreement with the USA then that's their call, They will work out a new arrangement when they meet. We will see what that is, not in the official political speak they dish out for the mushroom masses but in the actual end results. Weather or not the strikes actually come to an end in Pakistan.

Fair comment. The IEDs are in an acknowledged war zone though.

The whole world is a war zone, take a look what happened in that Kenyan shopping mall when the allied jihadist organization to the Taliban slaughtered the shoppers. That's just one example.