I stand by my position that this is bad law and could make it very easy for citizens to be declared as being ‘at war’ with the United States especially those who stand against this administration and what it stands for.
In this article ( http://news.yahoo.com/obama-lawyers-citizens-targeted-war-us-154313473.html ) Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson says: “Johnson said only the executive branch, not the courts, is equipped to make military battlefield targeting decisions about who qualifies as an enemy.”
And they are declaring the Homeland to be a battlefield.
Just curious. Do you seriously contend battlefield targeting decision should be made by court decision and subject to appeal? Don't you think that would be about the best conceivable way to lose the battle?
Let us consider a nearly worst-case scenario, a Mumbai-style assault on a US city. Does anyone seriously contend US military should not respond to such an attack? That only civilian police can fight back against an enemy attack n American soil?