He was a citizen. He was born here. My strawman as you called it was also a citizen. MS13 besides being a gang has been accused of aiding Al Qaeda which potentially moves him into enemy territory, but they are still a threat to the US.
Give me a break about Ron Paul. I’m hardly an isolationist. What I’m worried about is what can now come out of that barn now that Obama has left the door wide open. Look what he did with Libya. It wasn’t a war it was a kinetic military action which has resulted in a lot of terrorists getting manpads (man-portable anti-aircraft weapons) in the thousands. Very advanced ones too. It was a war and he went to war without Congressional approval unlike George Bush who did get Congressional approval before he took action.
You keep focusing on killing Alawki I’m concerned with the precedent. No matter how good or bad an action is in the present you have to look down the road and try to see what the potential for mischief or good an act has. The Constitution was created to protect us the citizens from the government and not thinking about actions taken by the President and or Congress and how it affects our fundamental freedoms even to take out a bad guy is folly.
Take a look what Wilson did to people who didn’t agree with him. That was the action of a Progressive who thought government knew best. He formed the American Protective League which worked with the FBI to silence opposition to his policies. They were pretty darn violent. Then there was his Sedition Act of 1918. Can you imagine where we’d be if those things hadn’t been quashed. Like Wilson Obama is a Progressive Democrat with the idea that government knows best and the constitution means very little.
In this respect, it's important to note how the Bush/Cheney administration labelled their policies concerning treatment, interrogation and imprisonment of terrorists. They are specifically identified as pertaining only to "non-citizens".
And you think his so called citizenship trumps the fact he was with the enemy, actively planning on killing YOU, and that makes all the difference!
My gowd, I hope and pray you are never elected to public office, every one will die waiting for you to dispense justice