• s20@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, he’s not a representative of any state, so technically assassination wouldn’t be an act of war…

    I’m not advocating, just pointing out that as an individual, his position is a bit more precarious than I think he realizes.

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      1 year ago

      And as much as I liked President Obama, he did set the precedent by targeting and killing a (bad) US citizen.

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          1 year ago

          Anwar al-Awlaki. Most things that I’m seeing about him are that he is the first US citizen targeted by a drone strike but I remember it being a big deal that he was the first US citizen assassinated at all.

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              1 year ago

              Um… Obama isn’t the king of drone strikes, the Trump administration surpassed the total number Obama era drone strikes in under two years IIRC.

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              You might be thinking of how Obama was the “king of making them safer” because before him they just let it blow up Kids and crap willy-nilly, and he was tired of seeing that stuff so he made them create a less explosive more knife like drone for less casualties.

              The flying ginsu.