It still remains in our constitution, but other coutnries outlawed them in the mid 1800's. To me they amount to hiring mercenaries, which is strictly forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, which he also complains must be strictly adhered to in dealing with detainees.
I went in to it a bit more in depth at my blog many months ago, The Incredible Naiveté of Dr. Ron Paul
Thanks Dakota Red. I read the article on your blog. I was thinking had the US kept that form of defense, can you imagine the network of hit men we would have across the world and their level of expertise in hunting and killing? Knowing us, we would have created a quite web of fear and death not really in our control. Our global intellegence would be wild. During the cold war...we would have had the Soviets putting hits on US leaders with their own web of death squads.
At the same time, when we were gearing up for war, I thought to myself, “why can’t we just send in some Marines to hunt Bin Laden down and kill his you know what” instead of killing and breaking everything in a war. War is for enemy States. In this age of terrorism, we maybe should think of the Islamic terrorists more like pirates who need to be hunted down and killed directly by military squads no matter where they are on earth.
Thanks for helping me out with this. Food for thought.