Amelia
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Amelia,
So you are saying we have to wait for a terrorist to come to this country, as in 'an immediate threat such as transporting explosives into our country" before we can do something. So as long as someone stays overseas they can plan terrorist actions, recruit terrorists that they will then send to this country in their stead, they can teach people how to build bombs, they can provide funds, papers, resources, safe houses, etc. - and there is not going to be anything we can do?
The lives are uncountable that can be saved by being able to target a General then by waiting for a Private. Privates are canon fodder, Generals are the brains and the resource provider.
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No, that is not what I am saying. I am saying that they had plenty of time to indict him and get a conviction. And they should have sought it.
No more lives were saved by killing him last week without due process than would have been saved by killing him last week with due process.
There would have been nothing wrong with killing him in a normal military maneuver if events on the ground dictated it. But that could have been done without putting him specifically on a kill list.
What you said was, and I quote "an immediate threat such as transporting explosives into our country".
There is no need for an indictment during times of war for enemy combatants, whether they be US Citizens or not when they are acting as the head (or operative) an an organization that has declared war on us.
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Yes I said, "such as" and gave one example. You gave an overgeneralization which amounted to a misrepresentation of my position. I corrected the overgeneralization.
And I continue to disagree with your position. U.S. citizens have special rights under the constitution. It is too dangerous to let one man determine which citizens don't deserve the rights anymore without those citizens being invited to defend themselves against the decision.