Yeah, somehow I highly doubt that will ever happen in my lifetime, so you'll forgive i'm not exactly shaking in my boots.
Second American revolution? Yeah right! LOL
I'm not one bit sad about Anwar getting killed, that was crazy with a capital C, he may have been a decent person at one time, but those days were long gone, and I rolled my eyes when Scahill was spouting that BS about how America made Anwar into the man he was. Nonsense, he made a conscience decision to embrace his role and pretty much denounced his own citizenship and wasn't currently in the U.S., so that pretty much made him fair game as far as JSOC was concerned. If I were in charge would I have bothered wasting a missle on him instead of someone actually dangerous? Not likely, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it either.
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Johnny_Hancock
10 years ago
I can't say al-Awlaki's death made me sad either. I was also annoyed when Scahill said America made him into the man he became. Nothing ever justifies a person praising and associating with religious fanatics hellbent on killing innocent people.
That being said, I think Scahill and many others raise a legitimate concern about the precedent that is set when our government makes a decision to assassinate an American citizen without a trial and not even release evidence of his guilt, even if the citizen is on foreign soil. I am not saying there aren't reasonable arguments for allowing that type of action in certain limited circumstances, but certainly there are reasonable due process arguments against it. Nevertheless, the administration pressed full-steam ahead the vast majority of the public remained completely in the dark until al-Awlaki was dead.
Scahill should have just focused on that aspect of the incident without suggesting al-Awlaki was a decent man who was ultimately compelled to sympathize with suicidal jihadist maniacs because of American foreign policy.
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