That wasn’t personal, that was war en masse. This is talking about assassinations.
So that made it okay? And BTW, it is my understanding that there was no war declared. Lincoln just decided how he wanted things. Obama is doing the same thing.
ML/NJ
I’d say war is war, whether one bullet or a thousand bombs... or in this case a single rocket taking out an opposition leader in a vehicle. I’m -very- sensitive to any threat to the Constitution, but this one gives me no heartburn at all.
Would we not have shot down Yamamoto’s airplane if his teenage child were also on board? Of course we still would have. War is war and Awlaki joined the other side. Anybody that joins the enemy whether soldier, spy or otherwise is liable to be killed on the battlefield wherever that battlefield is.