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jeremy scahill-killing anwar al-awlaki

submitted by enoch

1 decade 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago

When President Obama killed the Al Qaeda-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki by drone strike in September of 2011, he set a dangerous precedent: The president of the United States was now serving as judge, jury and executioner for American citizens. Read the full story by Jeremy Scahill, Inside America's Dirty Wars, at http://thenat.in/12CQhkP

2 Comments

dystopianfuturetoday

says...

If the guy was genuinely a member of Al Queda; was actively recruiting new members and planning attacks; but was out of reach of the American court system, what do you do?

Is Al-Awlaki's life more valuable the than the lives of those he plotted to kill?

If an American citizen joined the Nazi high command in WW2, would it be unfair to target him?

Schahill also makes the claim that democrats would be angry if Bush had done this, but if you look back, democrat rage was largely aimed at the war in Iraq. If anything, democrats were angry that Bush wasn't doing enough with regards to Al Queda.