Never been a big Glenn Greenwald follower and frankly I think that everyone on the Left/Right/floating in the ozone needs to take a deep breath on this one. An enemy combatant had taken up arms against the US, and oh yeah, he had been born here. I personally would have loved to see him captured and tried in a military court and hung -- yeah, hung -- at Fort Leavenworth. A trial and a supermax would have been ok too. But, the guy represented a clear and present danger in the war zone -- he wasn't trying to surrender, he wasn't trying to calm things down. He was going from point A to point B in Yemen. If he'd been doing this in Alabama, using a Predator to take him out would have been wrong. He wasn't. He was doing it in fucking Yemen. Advocate war against the United States -- not like Jane Fonda but like Benedict Arnold, and it really doesn't matter what passports you're entitled to carry. You're a valid target.
LIfe sucks in war. It's a danagerous business. This guy was a totally legitimate target. He thought he as an Islamic Warrior waging jihad against the west in general and the United States in particular. Waste him. Huffington Post, Greenwald, Wonkette for Christ sake!Get over it. In fact, be happy the bastard is gone.
I am going to lose my binafides on the anarchist/left/civil liberties side, but can't say I am shedding many tears.
Posted by: Brian M | 04 October 2011 at 01:47 PM
Agree. Shrill left can be as irrational as the shrill right. War is war.
Posted by: jackb29 | 05 October 2011 at 01:47 AM
However.....there is a reason for process. And process was not followed. he may have been waging war, but then the U.S. government has been waging war against its populace for generations now. So...I want the trial and the process.
Posted by: Brian M | 13 October 2011 at 04:05 PM