A Secret License to Kill -- David Cole, New York Review Of BooksOn Friday, a front-page New York Times story reported that a rift has emerged within the Obama Administration over whether it has authority to kill “rank-and-file” Islamist militants in foreign countries in which there is not an internationally recognized “armed conflict.” The implications of this debate are not trivial: Imagine that Russia started killing individuals living in the United States with remote-controlled drone missiles, and argued that it was justified in doing so because it had determined, in secret, that they posed a threat to Russia’s security, and that the United States was unwilling to turn them over. Would we calmly pronounce such actions compliant with the rule of law? Not too likely.
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My Comment: We definitely live in different times. Past administrations who would have conducted such a campaign would have been condemned in the press/academia/politically/internationally/etc. .... with demonstrations and sit-ins happening on a 24/7 time frame. Today .... the debate is limited to the legal framework on how to conduct it.
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