Here is one for the ages. The New York Times has actually published an op-ed piece blasting President Obama, in this case over his targeted drone strikes that have killed a few terrorists who just happened to hold US citizenship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/who-says-you-can-kill-americans-mr-president.html?_r=1&
Sorry NYT. I am going to give Obama the benefit of "the doubt" on this one. I could care less about technicalities here. Awlaki and Khan were bad guys and traitors who were targeting Americans for murder. I would have given the same order.
Adam Gadahn: You are next.
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OK it is official. Hell has frozen over.
Hell froze over the first time you agree with me on something, Findalis.
I've said before that if a U.S. citizen is actively involved, overseas, in an outfit engaged in conventional or asymmetrical military attacks on the U.S., they are a fair target.
I view very differently arresting a U.S. citizen at the O'Hare airport, holding him in a military brig as an "enemy combatant," and denying him access to the courts. The guy they nabbed appears to have been guilty as hell, but access to make a claim of innocence or seek a fair trial should always be open. Procedures take into consideration that the government may nab someone who is innocent.
There is room for concern that an innocent American tourist could be targeted by a drone strike on a beach because they are a political enemy of the current administration, then labeled a "terrorist" without proof... but we aren't close to that yet.
"There is room for concern that an innocent American tourist could be targeted by a drone strike on a beach because they are a political enemy of the current administration, then labeled a "terrorist" without proof... but we aren't close to that yet."
Unless I get hit with a drone while sitting in German beer garden next summer.
I may not agree with what you blog, but I will defend to the death your right not to be hit by a drone in a German beer garden to shut you up.
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