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So if there was one American serving in the Wehrmacht, or the Kriegsmarine, or the Luftwaffe during WWII, the U.S. government's military would have had no autho
by mpyne 13y ago
So if there was one American serving in the Wehrmacht, or the Kriegsmarine, or the Luftwaffe during WWII, the U.S. government's military would have had no authority to shoot back at him without a trial first?
- adventured 13y agoFalse context. The discussion is around domestic assassination (specifically of an unarmed journalist), not world war or war on a battlefield. Radically different concepts historically both from a legal and constitutional stand point. Your example couldn't be further away from the issue of assassinating an unarmed, non-threatening US citizen (whether domestic or overseas).
- mpyne 13y agoWait, who are we talking about now? You can't seriously mean that al-Awlaki is "an unarmed journalist"?