• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    And his drone strikes? Was he following the constitution in good faith?

    Show me where the Constitution says anything about how to handle US citizens who become enemy combatants adhering to non-state organizations waging war against the US.

    Obama tried to come up with an orderly procedure for making decisions in those cases, consistent with the Constitution and international treaties such as the Geneva Convention (which tallks about armed non-uniformed irregulars, but doesn’t say much about them, and assumes the states they operate in have the capacity to deal with them as bandits, which is not always true).

    And the idea that drones are somehow worse than any other method of blowing people to kingdom come is also irrational.