[org.whodat]

This whole things shows you how badly the citizenship by location of birth sucks., but you are correct, you either believe in the Constitution are you do not.

[DTxAg]

From what I've seen, Al-Awlaki advised or helped train several 9/11 hijackers and various other terrorists who have killed or tried to kill Americans. Is it your position that the US government cannot kill an American citizen who has actively taken up arms abroad in a foreign country, even if Congress specifically authorized the use of force against anyone who "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the 9/11 attacks? If you don't like that, was the US government violating the Constitution by killing American citizens who fought for Germany or Japan in WWII, even though Congress had declared war?

And I still don't think anyone's answered this -- what was the US supposed to do? Should we have tried sending in US soldiers into an unfriendly country to arrest someone we could easily take out by drone? How many US soldiers' lives should we have sacrificed trying to capture this guy? And if we couldn't capture him, should we have allowed him to continue training terrorists and planning attacks, all because we couldn't arrest him?