[marktwain]

Yes, the justification is wrong. But if you are a 16 year old hanging out with people who are behind enemy lines who are plotting to kill us, I have little sympathy for you. There is always the reality of collateral damage. It always occurs or is a possibility. If we refuse to allow collateral damage, we will be rendered incapable of action and we will be defeated.

[marktwain]

From the article:

“Take Pakistan, where the CIA kills some people without even knowing their identities.”

In war, most people are killed by people who do not know their identities. What kind of P.C. is this, that you have to ask an enemy combatant for I.D. before you can strike them?

[Westbrook]

Lesseee, he was hanging out with Moslem terrorists who are plotting to kill Americans?

I’m gonna have to go with 0bamao on this one.

I mean, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[OneWingedShark]

but by saying that his late father irresponsibly joined al Qaeda terrorists.

Now the US finds it a-ok to kill the son for the sins of the father.
Wow.

[cardinal4]

Never thought I would agree with Hussein..

[greeneyes]

Killing terrorists is ok with me. However, I do have a problem with a US citizen being targeted by our Government for assassination on the say so of someone like Obama. He is after all pretty thin skinned and would rather his opponents were out of the picture.

This is how countries are lulled down the totalitarian garden path. First they start with the unsavory, undesirable,poor, and powerless-unsympathetic people that no one really cares about or has a poor opinion of them for some reason.

Once that is all set up and going well they start expanding the definition of what defines this class of citizens that is not entitled to their constitutional rights.

Pretty soon everyone is under their thumb one way or another, and has no right to object, to have due process or even breath.

[eeevil conservative]

no big deal....

just hush and watch with admiration as Obama polishes his Peace prize...

[oldenuff2no]

Sorry folks he should not have been there but it looks like he was visiting his fathers homeland. As Americans we either stand for something or we don't. This smells of murder to me.
I'm retired military and have no love for that part of the world and would put down a terrorist in a heartbeat. This was not a terrorist. We have a right in this country that we do not have to agree with each other. They might have just killed someone because they were black, Asian, or female. There is nothing right about this.

[jmacusa]

‘’I don’t care if that Kraut bastard is a sixteen year old snot-nosed kid in short pants or an eighty-year old syphilitic prick with asthma . If he’s behind four feet of concrete he can still pull the trigger on a machine gun and kill my men’’.— General George S. Patton in response to criticism of American GI’s shooting older and young German soldiers. I think the message is clear . You take up arms against your country at any age and get killed doing it, tough sh!t.

[Iron Munro]

[South40]

According to Panetta and this article the decision to kill America citizens lies squarely in the hands of the community organizer.