He wasn’t an American in much of any sense, but hard cases make bad law. Making an exception for one American citizen (no matter how tenuous his citizenship) means that “exceptions” can be made for others, purely at the whim of the executive. Incidentally, other people in the executive branch are apparently being given the power of deciding who should be killed.
They didn’t have to give him a full trial, simply because it’s unlikely they ever would have caught him. But they most certainly should have charged him with treason and attempted to get him in the normal way, on the battlefield. It’s pretty obvious that he was a traitor, but Obama’s Holder Justice Department hasn’t charged anybody with treason, including the Fort Hood shooter, and one of the reasons for this whole easy-way-out drone tactic is to prevent Muslims from being charged with terrorism or treason, as applicable. It might give them a bad name, ya know...
>> But they most certainly should have charged him with treason and attempted to get him in the normal way, on the battlefield.
Agreed, but Obama’s followers might have made that an impossibility — easier to ask for forgiveness than permission no doubt the hypocrite thought.