Obama’s Drone Obsession Ruffling Feathers
” President Obama’s latest executive order allows for the killing by drone strikes of American citizens abroad. The administration attempts to find its justification for this in American law: a targeted U.S. citizen has to have recently been involved in terrorist activities and pose “an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States.” Although many national security advisers do not disagree with this tactic, they do have some reservations.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told American Thinker he believes that the issue should be not killing those who take up arms against the U.S., including American citizens, but rather the hypocrisy of it all. ”President Obama in 2008 ran against President Bush’s first term while Obama after 2008 governs against terrorism like Bush’s second term. They are doing the right thing, but the sin here is pretending it’s different from what they inherited, and it is not. Sometimes lawful isn’t sufficient in a democracy. Although I am quite comfortable with the legal rationale, based on my past experiences, programs like these require long-term, broad-based political support.”
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