Nobody sheds a tear for al-Baghdadi or bin Laden, but the reason there are a whole lot of civilian deaths and weddings that end abruptly in the region is an American policy of hunting named individuals with the military for targeted assassination
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There will always be people so bad that a broad consensus will form around the government killing them. The reason we insist on rule of law for ourselves back home is all the other people who get hurt.
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Just as a thought experiment, imagine the UAE flying armed drones over Kentucky and trying to kill a murderous thug who was talking smack about a Tenth Crusade. He'd be the next Nathan Bedford Forrest. We'd name schools after him, and they wouldn't teach evolution in them.
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Baghdadi blew himself up. So ... yeah, I guess that’s technically extrajudicial?
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I had heard he died, and inferred from your congratulations that a military operation was responsible. Apologies if I made a mistaken inference
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I read, um, somewhere, that the CIA has a pretty much unbroken history of trying to sell "assassinations" as something the USA oughta do a lot of, despite the abject failure of it as policy. Most presidents historically told them to get lost, because the idea is obviously bad. 1/
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It appears that 9/11 enabled them to develop a foothold, and their idiotic program has essentially been baked in as part of base policy ever since. The key fact here, though, is that it does not work, it cannot work, and the reasons it doesn't work are perfectly understood. fin/
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Extra judicial means more judicial.
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