Heh.
Too close to reality for comfort. If he can order the execution of an American citizen living in a foreign land without due process, that’s only one step from executing some of us living in our own country.
Al-Aulaqi - the subject of the case underlying Semmens’s brilliant satire - isn’t your typical “American citizen living in a foreign land.” He’s no senior who’s retired to the south of France, or tourist checking out Big Ben.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/anwar-al-awlaki-s-license-kill_516428.html