>... There is no armed conflict. They may be criminals (if it is proven that they are importing illegal narcotics), but they are not combatants.>My point, nevertheless, is that even if you buy the untenable claim that they are combatants, it is a war crime to intentionally kill combatants who have been rendered unable to fight. It is not permitted, under the laws and customs of honorable warfare, to order that no quarter be given — to apply lethal force to those who surrender or who are injured, shipwrecked, or otherwise unable to fight.>https://archive.is/5rFxAWhat do you think, /pol/? Murder or war crime? This is the kind of shit we avoided doing to the Japanese and Nazis in WWII because it is intrinsically wrong. We are now doing it arbitrarily to civilians with zero oversight and not even the most basic attempt at telling Americans why the government thinks it's right. All we get is the casual lie that it never happened and that it's fake news. At what point are we going to wake up and realize that we're giving THE STATE unlimited power to use the military against civilians?
We've done it countless times before and never heard this many complaints about itRemember the old meme>Obama holds the record for the most civilians killed by a Nobel Prize recipient
>>522587771It's not complicated. It was wrong to let the government go crazy with drone strikes in Pakistan, but the law is clear here: you can use the military against enemy combatants and terrorists. You cannot simply decide to use the military against criminals. Drug traffickers are criminals, not combatants. The law is crystal clear here. And EVEN IF THEY WERE combatants, it's STILL illegal and a literal war crime under that circumstance. Do you just not care?At what point are we going to wake up and realize that we're giving THE STATE unlimited power to use the military against civilians?
>>522588096Why should I care now when it was always excused before
You morons hate liberals so much that you are LITERALLY EMPOWERING THEM. All of this shit doesn't magically go away. Trump isn't dictator for life and on some level you have to admit that JD Vance MIGHT not be president in 2028. My point here is not strictly partisan -- we are normalizing illegal usage of force by the state. We are empowering ANY future executive to use Trump's exact line of logic here to unilaterally kill ANYONE. When are you morons going to wake the fuck up?
>>522588176It wasn't illegal before. It was immoral and it was wrong and myopic, but it wasn't illegal. Legality has to mean something because we are a nation of laws. The highest power in America is not the president but the constitution. Under the law, what Obama did was legal. Under the law, what Trump is doing is illegal. Does that not make sense?
>>522588359See even now you're making excusesYou're so transparently disingenuous, maybe that's why people hate you
>>522588514What am I making excuses for?
>>522587771Yea. This is why the direction-brained retards need to start internalizing the fact that the parties are fake and gay, and the same neocon regime has been in power since 9/11, and they remain in power, right up to now. Obama expanded the war on terror further than Bush ever dreamed of, and set the precedent for murdering American citizens without due process. Stupid nigger didn't do shit, other than fuck up health care.
What's wrong? Is this too uncomfortable to even discuss?
