Krauthammer: If You Take Up Arms Against The United States You have Forfeited Your Rights

The web site realclearpolitics.com reports on Charles Krauthammer's view of the legality of our targeting and killing terrorists who happen to be American citizens.

I really don't understand this sort of hysteria over the idea of killing Americans who have taken up arms against the United States. Thousands of Americans, Southerners, died in Antietam without any due process. When we stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day, and Americans approached German bunkers, I don't think anybody asked if they were any German-Americans here, I want to read you the Miranda rights. If you take up arms against the United States you were a target because it was an act of war and you forfeited those rights.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch the video via the below link:

 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/02/06/krauthammer_if_you_take_up_arms_against_the_united_states_you_have_forfeited_your_rights.html

Get Some: Death of Al-Awlaki Removes Key Al Qaeda English-Speaking Recruiter

Bill Gertz, the veteran national security correspondent for the Washington Times, offers a good piece on the killing of al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a key spokesman for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, removes one of the global jihadist movement’s most effective English-speaking recruiters from the scene.

According to U.S. officials, al-Awlaki was the most successful recruiter for what has been called “self-radicalized” terrorists — those inspired by al Qaeda’s message of jihad to take action.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/30/death-awlaki-al-qaeda-english-speaking-recruiter/?page=all#pagebreak