Last week, 11 senators and 39 members of the House of Representatives - Democrats all - to their credit sent a harshly worded letter to President Joseph R. Biden asking him to stop the killings.
Notwithstanding his unprosecuted war crimes, and with the government's version of Pearl Harbor still fresh in many Americans' minds, Truman was regarded as heroic for ordering the profoundly immoral, militarily useless, criminal mass killings against the hated Japanese using atomic bombs.
Fast-forward to the 9/11 era, and Bush had precedent to begin his own presidential killings of people the government wanted Americans to hate.
Obama took this to another level when he targeted and killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son, both of whom were born in the U.S. Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, advised Obama that the killings were lawful, as al-Awlaki had encouraged folks in the Middle East to fight against American soldiers there.
Whenever a president wants to kill secretly, he need only find an example of a predecessor having killed secretly with impunity - without due process, without a declaration of war and without an imminent attack.
Stated differently, Joe Biden - whose drones in 2021 targeted innocent civilians in Afghanistan, killing dozens - is using unlawful powers that his modern predecessors used and got away with to target and kill unsympathetic persons.
Ultimately, we have ourselves to blame for these killings.
https://conservativeinstitute.org/articles/napolitano-more-presidential-killings.htm
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