Quantum Windbag
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Actually, no. If they are caught in the act of committing an act of war, they are entitled to get shot on sight. There was no "due process" for the South's soldiers in the Civil War, either. President Lincoln and the editorial boards of the nation's newspapers didn't worry about whether shooting the enemy forces would deprive them of Constitutionally guaranteed "due process." That term is not without meaning. But its meaning is limited to the judicial process. It has precious little application to war.
And, if they find him on a battlefield shooting at US troops they can blow his ass away. If he is in Yemen, as they believe, and making videos, they cannot. Why do you not see the difference?
Why do you assume there is a difference? Why do you not see that there is NO difference?
In conventional warfare, troops meet on a field of battle. Enemies shoot at each other. Lives are lost.
In this non conventional warfare directed against us, there are no soldiers needed to be arrayed against THEIR combatants. Instead, as we clearly saw on 9/11/2001, these illegal enemy combatants buy tickets for civilian passenger jet flights, hijack those flights, fly them into building and kill thousand of innocent civilians. What "battlefield" are we NOW talking about?
And Al-Alwaki does his mischief in preaching his version of hate AND IN TRAINING some of the mutants who then serve as human explosives, etc. That his version of "fighting" our civilians in this war they started doesn't come with a uniform, flag, insignias of rank, military command structure, clearly delineated fields of battle, etc., absolutely doesn't change the nature of what he's doing. JUST as we could have taken-out Goebbles for his Propaganda services on behalf of our enemy in WWII, so too we should be able to take out that bitch for his services to the Jihadist War underway against us by our present enemy.
There is a difference. One is war and us fighting to preserve our values, and the other is us being afraid and allowing the enemy to define us.