Because it's become so difficult politically, diplomatically and legally to hold suspected terrorists, there's now more of an incentive "to kill rather than capture" them, Kenneth Anderson of the Hoover Institution tells NPR's Ari Shapiro in a story set to air on today's All Things Considered.

As Ari reports, many national security experts agree that "it has become so difficult for the U.S. to detain people, in many instances the U.S. government is killing them instead." Here's a short clip from his ATC report:

Ari goes on to cite the September raid in southern Somalia, in which U.S. forces reportedly killed a suspected al-Qaida operative, as one case in which the decision was made to take lethal action rather than attempt to capture the suspect.

The ATC report follows Ari's piece today on Morning Edition, in which he laid out some of the history of the legal and political problems that have been created by the detention of suspected terrorists at Guantamo Bay, Cuba, and other facilities over the past eight years: