To specifically answer your question about geography, yes it does make a difference. The nations where these guys take refuge have at best duplicitous and corrupt officials. You’re never going to get them to cool operate in handing them over. Pakistan proved that with bin Laden. Why risk high-value operators apprehending them when we have other options? These individuals have sought refuge with hostiles and openly renounced this nation’s constitution and laws. They forfeit the protection it affords, IMO.
“These individuals have sought refuge with hostiles nd openly renounced this nation’s constitution and laws. They forfeit the protection it affords, IMO.”
For a minute I thought you were talking about Obama. But then I remembered - he’s not even an American (unless he can produce his naturalization papers).
So if Obama can produce his naturalization papers, will he be eligible for the US military to hit him with a drone, since he’s openly renounced this nation’s Constitution and laws, and all his buddies are hostile to this nation (think The New Party, Bill Ayers, the terrorists he yukked it up with and LA Times hid the video, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc)? No trial, no evidence, just a drone hit out of the blue?
Maybe the military could teach Obama that those who live by the sword die by the sword. If Obama is now a US citizen I believe he should get due process. But if he thinks a US citizen should get a drone hit for the reasons that you cite - without any due process to make sure that he has a chance to defend himself and dispel any wrong conclusions by some non-accountable person - then Barack Hussein Obama should be the first person on that list and he should be taught that what goes around comes around.
Would you agree?
Also, the country where Obama “has taken refuge has at best duplicitous and corrupt officials. You’re never going to get them to cooperate in handing (him) over”.
Al Qaeda is on the inside of the building.
Fine, that explains why it can happen in foreign countries but it does not explain why it cannot happen here. That is the issue. The president making decisions on his own to kill American citizens, either abroad or here, is a very big problem. Take that with the president’s refusal to cooperate with Congress concerning numerous investigations and you’ve got a guy who can kill you or me and nothing can come of it.