It is not as simple as that. One aspect of the issue is the utter hypocrisy of the liberal politicians.
The liberal elites and our current administration have expressed their disdain for other governments that have done exactly what ours just did. And they have punished the governments and people involved, including indicting some of them.
You see, when a government, like that of Columbia, or Chile, or El Salvador, is fighting a communist revolutionary army every bit as evil and terroristic as Al Queada, and they decide to eliminate someone who supports, leads, and motivates the rebels, its a crime in the eyes of liberal Democrats and reason to sanction the government and the people involved. But when the liberal politicians in the USA do the same thing they think its fine. The only difference of course is the political orientation of the target.
In addition, all of the campaign talk from President Obama and his liberal supporters about changing how the world looks at our country, and his contention that the kinds of anti-terror activities conducted by President Bush were damaging our nation's reputation internationally were obviously just hot air in the light of the recent killings.
Had a Republican president done what President Obama just did we'd all be reading endless articles about how illegal and unjustified it was. Remember the hearings and threatened arrests over interrogation tactics? Where are those Democratic representatives now? Why aren't they having hearings regarding the killing of individuals far from combat?
So while many of us understand that sometimes you do have to kill those who support your opponents, even if they are not in a combat situation, in order to win a war, there is no reason to give the hypocrisy of the present administration a free pass.
Good post.
I think the liberal hypocrisy is what is at issue too.
Water boarding was an impeachable offense (BUSH). But blowing up two American citizens from a UAV is OK?
Someone needs to go after the thought process of this.
So your point is that liberals are hypocrites? That’s about as newsworthy as the sunrise. The people and institutions you’re indicting are not only complicit in the hypocrisy, they’re its CREATORS! It’s not likely they’ll admit it now. But you can bet they’ll ignore it where they can and justify it where they can’t.
The problem is, for conservatives to bicker about the administration’s methods while endorsing those same methods for a Republican administration reeks of the same level of hypocrisy. We should celebrate the fact that this vermin is dead, even if it happened on Omoron’s watch.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt to point out the puzzling disconnect between the ideological purity expected of a Republican president and the moral latitude accorded a liberal tool ...