Depends on who is running the show.
It’s difficult to imagine a regime which labeled the Ft. Hood massacre ‘workplace violence’ and refused to rescue four Americans in distress in Benghazi and sending F-16’s to Egypt but not Taiwan one which uses drones for a ‘war on terror’.. I say this is opening the door to eventual DOMESTIC targeted killings merely by adding the word ‘domestic’ to the directive on targeted killings of Americans overseas. This is the regime laying the ground work as assault weapons bans is a precursor to an eventual total gun ban.
I don’t like the idea of a group of spooks (CIA, NSA, etc.) and political hacks in the Administration being trusted with this decision without true judicial oversight. At a minimum they should be required to be through a public judicial proceeding to strip these people of their US citizenship first. I see three judicial tracks for judicially stripping citizenship with differing burdens of proof required:, one for birthright citizens who do not have dual-citizenship, one for those born in the US to non-citizen parents, and one with almost automatic approval for naturalized citizens who acquired their citizenship as adults and took an oath.
American citizens who wage war on the US deserve to die, and I don’t care how and where we waste them, so let’s drop the sanctimonious pontificating on this issue.
What we want is a realistic drone policy based on facts, good intelligence, accurate targetting, and DOA results.
Now this appears to people operating overseas. Here at home, we have another problem: DOJ and DHS calling some acts of terrorism as “workplace violence”.
This kind of BS thinking has got to go and be replaced with something realistic.
I’ve got news for some anti-drone people, they have been used in one form or another in the US for years. I would rather send a drone out into the desert wastelands of Arizona and New Mexico to search for drug-smugglers and terrorists than send an underarmed Border Patrol agent who can’t shoot back at criminal trespassers.
We have got to grow up and realize that our enemy has evolved, but we haven’t. Drones are an amazing weapon in the fight against terrorists, organized armed forces, and even drug-smugglers.
The only issue is how to do it properly, with well defined usage doctrines.
Just another action that seems reasonable and might do some good but if you look at the longer issue (time), it is up to those in charge to make decisions. Who are you going to trust 20 years from now much less Obama now...
This is one of those feel good, sounds good things that will eventually bite you in the ass. Just look to the Constitution for relevance - then it is not so ambiguous!