Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-month series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Should the U.S. rethink its drone policy? Oh yes, we didn't get to that issue. We should

have because there was a big, of course, recognition of a boo-boo this week. We killed two hostages

in a drone strike in January and two Americans who we were actually trying to kill because

they're all kind of, and Obama apologized to the hostages' families.

First apology that anyone as civilian has gotten, even though the government estimates

up to a thousand civilians have been getting up. I know apologies don't go over well with

conservatives. Oh no, it is. It depends on what you're doing. It depends on what you're

doing. I mean, if he were going to stop the drone policy, then an apology would be appropriate.

I can understand this, but he's not going to. He's going to continue with it, and I can

understand the contritions. But this raid, the fact that it did hit two Al-Qaeda people

in a horrible way, the fact that those two hostages were killed shows what horrible stuff they

were doing. It shows that they were actually warm. They were on to real Al-Qaeda people.

Well, they weren't. I'm like the bodies of the hostages. No, but they weren't hitting

a wedding party. You're actually arguing this acceptable collateral damage.

Once a hostage is kidnapped, there's not a lot. Your options get very limited. It's

horrible. In some ways, this is actually a bad example for why the drone program is bad.

What better examples are when they hit wedding parties? That's right. That's right.

I think what this really shows actually. I'll just say I agree with people like Rand Paul

when it comes to drone policy. But what I think this really shows, well, he did a whole

filibuster over this issue when we're going after American citizens.

That's the old Rand Paul. There's not running for office.

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