Someone needs to tell Charles the difference is... when our troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, uniformed German soldiers were firing on them. There was no doubt — nor time to seek any — that our guys were facing unfriendly forces.
Contrast that to targeting of a purported enemy American in a safehouse in some foreign land. The “intelligence” data that identifies this individual is the brought to us by the same folks who did such a bang-up job predicting the attack on our consulate in Benghazi. Add to that.. the decision to turn this individual into a pink mist will be made by some unknown operative in the administration who will act as judge, jury and executioner. And let’s also not forget the POS in the White House is quite fond of stretching the extent of his powers.
Krauthammer’s comparisons don’t hold water, because the differences couldn’t be more stark.
Exactly. We need to STOP letting them open these doors. The TSA is a perfect example. TSA agents are already showing up at Republican rallies, sports events and bus stations.
This is the same point that Bill Whittle made. Nothing in Washington stays the same size as the box it came in. Once released it mutates and expands and reaches. Do we really want to see where "legal drone executions of American citizens" takes us?
Yes, even when we caught German spies landing in US territory from a u-boat, or whatever it was, FDR didn’t summarily have them killed for the heck of it. They were dealt with, but reasons were formulated and proceeds were followed. Not to mention there’s longstanding tradition for killing spies on your turf, unlike blowing up people who may or nay not be doing anything bad halfway around the world with robots.