So we whack the moneymen. What about the moneymen who own so much American debt and property and business partnerships that us whacking them wrecks our economy?
When things start passing into the realm of war, legalisms go out the window. When we bombed Dresden and Tokyo, and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we didn't argu in court that the residents thereof were criminals worthy of capital punishment. Once we are in a war mentality, then any person or thing which is an asset to the enemy's war-making capability becomes a legitimate target