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> In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki >Good. Justified. The man was a terrorist. are we sur
by TurkishPoptart 4y ago
> In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki
>Good. Justified. The man was a terrorist.
are we sure about that? personally, I think Americans should give Americans fair trials and be proven guilty before condemned to death by drone-strike, but I'm a conservative.
- krapp 4y ago>personally, I think Americans should give Americans fair trials and be proven guilty before condemned to death by drone-strike, but I'm a conservative. Conservatives were the ones most in favor of tactics like torture - sorry, enhanced interrogation - stripping terrorist suspects of citizenship rights, indefinite detention and assassination after 9/11. They were the ones insisting that wanting to give terrorist suspects fair trials was a sign of left-wing weakness and an unwillingness to take the existential threat of Islamic terrorism seriously. It's fair to criticize Obama - I voted for him and I have a list of things I hate about him, and the drone strikes are on it - but invoking conservatism when doing so is ahistorical. If anything, your views in this regard are more traditionally liberal, not conservative.
- TurkishPoptart 4y agoI mean I'm conservative in that I care about using the legal process before blowing people up. Jesus, dude.