America commonly uses lethal force, the U.S. Constitution, the Geneva Convention and the U. N. Charter be damned. Bomb in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa, no problem.
Create and disperse "Kill/Capture" squads such as the one that murdered Osama bin Laden. No problem. Use a drone strike to kill a U.S. born Yemen based cleric and then kill his teenage son and his friends the same way, no problem. Support the killing of Moamar Kadafi, no problem. If innocent men, women and children are killed by drones in pursuit of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, no problem, they're just ancillary damage. To indefinitely occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, using lethal force to enforce U.S. control, no problem. Spread the "War on Terror" to 4 more Central African nations last week, using drones and "Kill/Capture" squads, no problem.
Create a secret U.S. government death panel that can authorize the killing of Americans anyplace at any time, no problem. http://www.december212012.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12383. What has America become? We respect no rule of law, we unleash our military, our "contractors," and our C.I.A. to kill, torture and secretly imprison anyone we choose. This is not the America of 10 years ago that made us proud, nor the America most of the world used to admire. It has become an imperialistic brutal monster that operates by its own rules and will attack as it chooses, in the process of seizing and controlling the resources of others.
Dick
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