good review by Douglas Valentine

The message is crap. War means killing. There is no way around that. This BS about due process for American citizens in hostile lands is sheer lunacy. Pray tell, how one is supposed to arrest someone(who is armed and surrounded by others who are armed) in hostile territory? If an American points a gun at me I will do my best to eliminate that threat. Natural law supersedes your Constitutional law.

The problem with Scahill is that he isn’t much of a thinker. He is an ideology. He thinks in one track and that’s it. He condemns this operations without considering the issue from a military perspective. He scolds in pious tones people bearing responsibilities and possessing knowledge he does not possess.

War crimes? Such things do not exist. Oh, sure laws of war do “exist” but only on paper. Since no one in the history of the world has ever really followed them I think it is safe to say that they don’t mean anything at all.

I have to wonder about people like you who ignore the vast “crimes” of terrorisms and focus solely on US “crimes”. I also wonder what you think would happen if the US surrendered to your rather fantastic vision of strict observance of humanist principles. Do you seriously think we would be better off? I can confidently say that we would not be. We would still know death, still know the killing of innocents, and still know the violation of human rights.

“But it wouldn’t be us doing it.” That’s cold comfort to those being terrorized, killed, and maimed. Oh and it most likely would include Americans on American soil. But hey, we should be subjected to such acts because of your moral qualms. We should all ignore the natural instinct to defend ourselves just so the US can live up to an impossible standard in your head.