US kills two top leaders of terror group that attacked Kenya mall

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168. You are not explaining the cause of terrorism and al Shahab, you're spinning it

to suit your own ideological agenda. Al Shahab's motives are not related to your objections to US foreign policy. Trying to exterminate all Muslims, starve the people of Somalia, and force everyone else to convert to radical Islam is not resistance to imperialism. It is imperialism of a different king.

This is nonsense bordering on gibberish:

However, the U.S. has acted in violation of the Constitution (Congress has not declared war against any nation, and the AUMF does not absolve Congress nor empower the President to abrogate their Constitutional duties). Thus, the U.S. has no legal military grounds to violate other nation's sovereignty and kill its citizens. Also, the U.S. government has issued no arrest warrants that I have seen to arrest and extradite these people for trial and punishment if convicted.

1. The Constitution does not require Congress to declare war against a nation in order to authorize military force. That's just something you made up. Law is not a game of Calvinball wherein it means "it is illegal to take action which offends the sensibilties of the anti-American left at any given moment."

2. Al Shahab is fighting against the lawful government of Somalia. We are not violating Somalia's sovereignty by helping it quash a rogue militia/army whose goal is to conquer Somalia. The US is coordinating its efforts with Somalia's government. In fact, the United Nations is coordinating the international military response to al Shahab. So, your appeal to Somalia's sovereignty is a red herring.

3. There is no need to issue arrest warrants when dealing with a military opponent. Military opponents may be killed until they surrender. Then talk about arrest warrants becomes relevant. Not until then. Regardless of their criminal status, their status as military participants in a war means they are legitimate targets of armed force so long as they are participants. If they don't want to get shot or droned, their only option is to stop waging war.

This is the kind of moral equivalence horse shit that gives leftists a bad name:

Thus, the U.S., like the terrorists, is acting outside the legal strictures of both military and criminal law as defined and enforced by treaty (strictures the U.S. agreed to be legally bound to).

The US action is legal, in accordance with both US law and is in support of the United Nations' mission in the area. Al Shahab murders civilians and has forced all food aid organizations out of the area, imposing famine on the area.

There is no room for differing opinions on this. You are simply wrong, factually and ethically, based on your ideological conviction that the United States is the source of all evil on Planet Earth.

If you get past your Great Satan theory of international politics, you will understand law and war much better.

Until then, I guess you're free to persist in your fact-free fantasy that terrorists are the way they are because Americans forced them to be that way, and that it's illegal to do anything to inconvenience terrorists if they amass in such numbers that civilian law enforcement can't touch them.

But those with responsibility in the real world have to actually address the problem of civil war and famine in Somalia, not soil themselves over being mean to terrrorist and wannabe conquerors.