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37. None of the US Citizens targeted recently had "taken up arms"

Both al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were propagandists -- useful as bait to ID other targets, and al-Awlakhi had been closely watched since before 9/11, if indeed he wasn't already doubled. Al-Awlaki's 16 year old son, also a US Citizen, was guilty of nothing more that the sins of his father. Kamal Derwish was among the first Predator targets, and he had also long been known to US intelligence and like Awlaki was allowed to depart the US while under surveillance. Awlaki, who had been "spiritual advisor" to the Flt. 77 hijackers, departed the US after he was briefly taken into custody after 9/11. That's a pretty good indication that he was a double, if not merely a "tag and release."

See my original post, up-thread, in which I pointed out that there have been US Citizen combatants for the other side who have died in battle and civilians killed in bombing raids by US Forces in previous wars, but never targeted killings of US Citizens (that we were ever made aware of, anyway).

This GWOT is a very different kind of war from any the U.S. has ever fought. The rules of engagement have changed, and continue to change to blur the distinctions between combatants and those U.S. Citizens merely held to have helped the enemy. There are the additional blurring of the lines for those who appear to have been at some point "turned" and working both sides. That is, indeed, a "slippery slope," which has become steeper and greasier under Obama.