Propaganda.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

46. ProSense? Why do you argue with people determined to live in their own reality?

This stuff has pretty much been settled law since the civil war. FDR arranged a military trial for an American citizen sabotaging the U.S. on behalf of Hitler, in which accused U.S. Nazi was convicted and then executed with nary a peep from anyone. And the overly-partisan Republican Supreme Court is, if anything, far more permissive of military prerogatives than President Obama has made use of.

But that doesn't matter to people who angrily type "LOL" at you because, like many Republicans, they seem to imagine that they speak for the Courts (and the American people - the substantial majority of whom approve of the President's drone policy).

I think it's just better to let these kinds of threads die. Psychological research has shown that when you introduce facts to someone emotionally wedded to a belief, they get even more doctrinaire. I certainly see this when I talk to Republicans, and it's just going to be true for some Democrats as well.

So it's just best to let it lie.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community