Except this situation differs in that we’re not talking about uniformed soldiers killed in a combat situation, but rather a known U.S. citizen who is targeted, hunted, and assasinated. It’s clearly distinguishable.
What does an al Queda uniform look like?
War these days does not work as it did in WW2.
Compare al-Awlaki's case to that of bin Laden. He and three or four of his comrades were offed in Yemen, in an international and hostile context. If either bin Laden or al-Awlaki had been rubbed out without due process in similar fashion in the United States, some folks would be up on Murder I, I would expect.
Wanted, dead or alive. Check out the legality of that
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
And the penalty for treason can be death, after two (or more) witnesses testify to the act.
Well, there were quite a few witnesses that this guy was adhering to our enemies - in fact at 9:53 this morning in Yemen pieces of him were adhering to a lot of the other jihadis’ in that convoy.
This POS sentenced himself to death.
“The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason” Was this guy less guilty than the Rosenbergs? This is a hot war, not a cold war. If you don’t have the stomach for it, just pretend it was a tragic case of friendly fire, which you surely haven’t gotten nearly as upset about in Afgahnistan, and that our drone was only going for the foreign terrorists in the convoy.
Pretty good trolling by the way! This was fun to vent over, just the same.