2.
If they are not actually terrorists in the
strict sense, their association with and sympathy for terrorists makes them
guilty.
3.
Since we have declared war on our opponents, the
rules of war dispense us from any obligation to observe peacetime procedures
connected with international law.
4. We can do all of this because Allah is on our side. (Or as Bush/Brennan/Obama would put it: as the "Exceptional Nation" we are GOOD, while our opponents are BAD.)
Does anyone
else see the oily, greasy, slippery slope we're all sliding down? Barbara Lee
perceived it immediately when she warned us against becoming "the evil we deplore."
Under drone warfare policy, we've now become the exact evil we claim to be
fighting -- right down to the detail of flying airborne vehicles into buildings
where the innocent will be killed along with the guilty. We've manifested
unmistakably for the entire world to see the very evil of which bin Laden
accused us. That was his intention in the first place.
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