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Oct 2 11 9:05 AM
APKeaton wrote:Obviously he had to kill a citizen to do that this time, but he did so with authorization from the US National Security Council and the judicial and legislative branches of the government. The judicial branch had dismissed a case that was brought forward to prevent the targetted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. The legislative branch had passed the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Agaisnt Terrorists" Act. Although this was a superfluous and uncessary move by the legislative branch in this case as al-Awlaki is clearly a combatant engaged in an armed struggle agaisnt the USA. Under domestic and international law, the USA has a duty and a right to engage al-Awlaki in military combat.
“I’m a huge fan of executive power, but if someone came up to you and said the government wants to target you and you can’t even talk about it in court to try to stop it, that’s too harsh even for me.”
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