Eugene Robinson on Assassination by Remote Control
which is the title of his Friday Washington Post column.
It begins like this:
It begins like this:
If George W. Bush had told us that the “war on terror” gave him the right to execute a U.S. citizen overseas with a missile fired from a drone aircraft, without due process or judicial review, I’d have gone ballistic. It makes no difference that the president making this chilling claim is Barack Obama. What’s wrong is wrong.This issue has become ever hotter given the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA.Robinson notes that the issue of using drone attacks to kill American citizens is far from a hypothetical, given the killing both of US born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and two weeks later his 16 year old son. Robinson writes of the cleric
I shed no tears for him. But as the Justice Department document admits, U.S. citizens have