To arrest me, all they have to do is drop by the house.
Do you have a similar procedure you’d like to suggest by which Awlaki could have been taken into custody?
The guy was an open and avowed enemy of the United States, a leader in the group that launched 9/11, yet we’re not supposed to attack him in the same way we’ve attacked our other enemies for almost 250 years?
Sounds to me like your argument is not with the method of attack here, or whether he’s a citizen or not, it’s with the president exercising his war powers as duly authorized by the Constitution and by Congress in a functional Declaration of War.
AFAIK, these methods are only authorized for use outside the US, specifically in countries where the local authorities are not able to arrest and extradite. Their use inside the country, where other methods are available, would I suspect be neither wise nor legal.
Please show me the constitutional mandate that allows US citizens to be assassinated because they are on foreign soil, but would not allow it on domestic soil.