[NormsRevenge]

Koh, a fierce critic of former president George W. Bush's policies before he took his post,

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A battlefield convert?

[NormsRevenge]

File picture shows supporters of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party during a protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan. The US government for the first time has offered a legal justification of its drone strikes against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, citing the right to "self-defense" under international law. (AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)

[NormsRevenge]

Map of Pakistan locating Miranshah, where at least six militants were killed
in a US drone attack on Tuesday (AFPgraphic/Martin Megino/Gal/Js)

[penelopesire]

Hear something? I think it is the sound of Huffington Post and DU posters heads exploding...lol. Someone should post this article over there.

[FreeAtlanta]

I am kind of surprised he didn't call them off. This is one issue that I support his administration on.... unless, he has some weird ulterior motive that we haven't discovered.

[r9etb]

This is not going to end well.

While they came out and offered a legal justification, they have at the same time opened themselves to debate and legal action, and various new levels of oversight and rules of engagement imposed for political reasons.

[kenmcg]

Not for nothing but......the drones are doing a fantastic job of destroying the enemy, and sometimes innocents. Yet our soldiers on the ground can’t shoot the enemy until it appears they will be or have been fired on and if we take them into custody they must be mirandized and God help the soldier that kills or injures an innocent civilian.

[csvset]

Another strike.

US strike kills 4 in North Waziristan

[Nachum]

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