Talking Heads Are Calling for Drone Strikes Against Americans for Questioning the Election

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Thanks for this. I hadn't known that Anwar al-Awlaki was an American. I knew he was a Yemen citizen. Seems he had dual citizenship. Interesting to see that this is the first time an American was targeted by a US drone strike. I was surprised during the Obama administration that there were hardly any criticisms about drone strikes, in the MSM, in right-wing MSM, in right-wing propaganda, in any of the news, but I may have been looking in the wrong places. Atrocities of the drone strikes were reported, but there wasn't much criticism. Now in response to domestic terrorism (even for those who disagree with this term), it's fair to ask about the history US-style approaches to drone warfare on terrorists. Not that drones are the answer to routing out terrorism. Indeed, it would help to have laws that protect US citizens against drone strikes, anywhere in the world. US attrocities in Yemen are also related to this, but a different subject. Thanks for the link.

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You're welcome. I remember it as a huge story as it happened. It was interesting to see how different people processed their opinions on it. I saw that it didn't matter so much if they were left or right, Democrat or Republican. Most everyone saw al-Alwlaki as an enemy of the state, but the fact that he was an American Citizen and was executed without trial was what the argument was about.