Killing al-Awlaki

Obama has announced the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico born al-Qaida terrorist. al-Awlaki had inspired other terrorist murderers, like Major Hasan, the killer of thirteen Americans in Texas. I applaud this action by our military and civilian leaders.

However, a commenter at The Hill blog reminds us: "So now we have the Obama double standard. Bush lost his moral compass because he waterboarded Zawahiri and didn't give him constitutional protection, an attorney and a civilian trial. But Obama can assasinate Alawki without so much as a writ of habeus corpus or an ACLU attorney within a thousand miles?"

Here is a link to a discussion of the legality of killing a U.S. citizen without due process.