Targeted American teen killings …. Lovely … This from the most ” open , honest and transparent “ administration in history .
Tell me when George Bush killed an American teenager .
“.. the August issue, Tom Junod examines an entirely new application of power on the
part of the president — the targeted killing of individuals deemed to be threats to the
country. So far, thousands have been killed,most prominent among them Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. The decisions to
target are made and the lethal missions are carried out without any public accountability, even when those targeted are Americans and even when, on one occasion, one of those Americans was a
teenager.
Over the course of this week,
Junod considers five of the larger
implications of his story on The Politics Blog.
—Eds. ”
The barbarism of this administration rivals all the other socialist regimes and the silence of the Bushitler crowd is deafening .
” He was just a boy. Let’s start there. He was an American boy, born in America. Though he’d lived in Yemen since he was about seven, he was still an American citizen, which should have made it harder for the United States to kill him.
It didn’t. It should at the very least have made it necessary for the United States to say why it killed him. It didn’t. ”
HT/Instapundit
” UPDATE: Moe Lane: “You know what’s missing from this Tom Junod piece on drone strikes? . . . Any repudiation of this piece Junod wrote in response to Election Night 2008.”
Yep. Hence my mockery.
Moe continues: “Speaking as one of the ‘moldering’ people that the author later gleefully mocked in that article: YOU wanted this, Tom Junod. You wanted every particle of this. You drank deep at the well of hate in 2008, as the above passage
shows, and in your hate you fixated on getting Barack Obama elected. And Barack Obama was. And then Barack Obama decided – because he was and is a weak man, with neither George W Bush’s compassion, nor Bush’s moral strength – to pursue the Global War on Terror on the.cheap, and from a distance, and without
listening to the screams. So, you want to know why Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed, Tom Junod? Why, it was all done for you. So that you could continue to hate your domestic opponents in peace, and
without hindrance. Own it.”
Okay, that’s harsher than mere mockery, but entirely deserved. ”
Update lifted in it’s entirety from the good professor Reynolds .
Sir , please consider my copying verbatim as a true indication of my admiration of both yourself and Mr. Lane , both of whose writing skills cause me to bow my head in admiration .
Eloquence ..
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