Does Obama's green-light on assassination of Americans change your view

[The Magistrate]

69. The Obvious Problem, Sir, Is the Co-Mingling Of Categories

You are attempting to apply concepts of criminal law in civil society to the conduct of warfare.

Being a combatant at war is not a crime; killing a combatant in war is not carrying out the sentence of a court.

So far, three citizens have been killed by military or security agencies of the United States. One was a self-proclaimed leading light of a jihadi group, who gloried publicly in his status as a man at war with the United States; the other two were persons accompanying armed combatants of foreign extraction who were the actual targets of the strikes. These were not arbitrary actions, not merely labeling someone as something they actually were not. Understanding of the matter, and consideration of policy, is not advanced by pretending they were.