Actually I am thinking more along the lines of he took out a US citizen, denied him his Rights to a trial for treason.
THIS. I think we are heading down a dangerous path with the precedent that his assassination sets.
Shouldn't you be expressing your grief with the handwringing hordes over at DailyPOS?
This is like saying that, if Joseph Goebbels had happened to have simply been born in the U.S., it would have been improper for the military to take him out during WWII.
We're at war, son.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2785995/posts
United States Assassinates Anwar the Anchor Baby
Bloggers and Personal ^ | 30 Sep 11 | Xzins
Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 8:51:51 AM by xzins
The most important thing to know about the “death by drone” of Anwar al-Awlaki is that this is really about citizenship and anchor babies. Anwar, America’s enemy, is a US citizen by virtue of his Yemeni dad pursuing higher education in the US at the time of Anwar’s birth. Anwar was born in New Mexico in April of 1971. That made him a US citizen.
It doesn’t matter that he returned to Yemen and that his parents had no intention of ever becoming US citizens while they lived here. What matters is the address of the hospital in which little Anwar screamed his first breath of defiance.
The truly bizarre is yet to follow. We also trained him. He returned to the US for both undergrad and graduate degrees: civil engineering and education, respectively. Later pursuit of a PhD in human resource development at George Washington University fell short.
This “U.S. Citizen” then set about trying to destroy his so-called “home of birth.”
What’s more, Awlaki’s kids and wife are forever tied to the US. His five children, at least some of whom had to have been born in the US before he departed in 2002, finally arrived in Yemen in 2004 with their parents. Those born in the US while he attended school are doubly US citizens since their dad was a citizen.
As one recent discussion put it: “Each of these babies becomes an anchor who retards deportation of unlawfully present parents—and who eventually will be an anchor for entire families and villages as chain migration leads to the immigration of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.” Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The death of Anwar al-Awlaki is not at all about getting “America’s enemy.” It really is a discussion about “anchor baby citizenship.”
Anchor babies with bombs.
Meanwhile “The Obama administration says attempts to change the U.S. constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States are “just wrong.” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2010/08/obama-administration-slams-attacks-on-birthright-citizenship.html
No one wants to “change the 14th Amendment, Mr President. They simply want folks to acknowledge that anti-American terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki’s parents weren’t “subjects” of the United States. They were Yemenis. Little Anwar wasn’t a subject of the US either.
On the contrary, he was a hater and an enemy.