Why on earth are we wasting time and money by having FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testify before congress as to why agents of the United States killed a very influential member of Al-Qaeda? Facts are important here - First and foremost, al-Awlaki told the world he was a terrorist and worked his entire career as a Muslim clergyman trying recruit terrorists to kill Americans. Add to that that he left the borders of his country of birth voluntarily to join a terrorist group bent on destruction of the US and our allies. He took up with them and made it known publicly that he was one of them - thereby declaring himself as an enemy.
We don't arrest enemies in a war; we kill them. Even the editorial board of the Washington Post agrees that killing al-Awlaki was justified. To agree with the opinion of the likes of Libertarian Gary Nolan and the ACLU (better known as the American Confederation of Lawyers, Unemployed) who have proclaimed that our leaders violated international law is the same as saying that we should have actively pursued traitors in past conflicts with cops instead of Soldiers and Marines. Ridiculous. If Hitler had been born in the US and done what he did to the world would we have sent J. Edgar Hoover to Berlin and arrested him? There were actual cases of German-Americans and Japanese-Americans that were native born in the US that wound up in enemy uniforms fighting against us. Should we have made the effort to find them and arrest them?
Terrorists cannot be treated as criminals. They are not engaged in common crimes. They murder, maim and injure anyone that happens to be in a certain location at a certain time in the name of their cause. They have resigned their citizenship in a legitimate country and replaced it with their affiliation to a misguided group of individuals and a cause that is bent on the destruction of our freedoms. They better know up front that they cannot have it both ways.
Sarmajor
We don't arrest enemies in a war; we kill them. Even the editorial board of the Washington Post agrees that killing al-Awlaki was justified. To agree with the opinion of the likes of Libertarian Gary Nolan and the ACLU (better known as the American Confederation of Lawyers, Unemployed) who have proclaimed that our leaders violated international law is the same as saying that we should have actively pursued traitors in past conflicts with cops instead of Soldiers and Marines. Ridiculous. If Hitler had been born in the US and done what he did to the world would we have sent J. Edgar Hoover to Berlin and arrested him? There were actual cases of German-Americans and Japanese-Americans that were native born in the US that wound up in enemy uniforms fighting against us. Should we have made the effort to find them and arrest them?
Terrorists cannot be treated as criminals. They are not engaged in common crimes. They murder, maim and injure anyone that happens to be in a certain location at a certain time in the name of their cause. They have resigned their citizenship in a legitimate country and replaced it with their affiliation to a misguided group of individuals and a cause that is bent on the destruction of our freedoms. They better know up front that they cannot have it both ways.
Sarmajor
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