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In reply to the discussion: US kills two top leaders of terror group that attacked Kenya mall [View all]Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I'm simply in favor of due process for criminals.
When Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City he was tried, convicted and executed for the crime of mass murder. We didn't just pull up to his car at a stop light and machinegun him to death.
We killed two individuals in Somalia on the suspicion they were senior al Qaeda members. Maybe they were, and maybe they weren't. If we have the capacity to nab Bin Laden from his stronghold in Pakistan, we can nab two Somali thugs and put them on trial.
You're smart enough to know it's not a question of ignoring the innocent victims and coddling the bad guys, so why do you make such a ridiculous accusation? The issue is of due process for the accused, and of the counterproductive nature of a U.S. drone policy that generates more "terrorists" than it kills.