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Comment by samcheng

3 days ago

They didn’t kill the smugglers extrajudicially, though, which is a big difference.

That's how you differentiate old empires from the curent ones: they are tired of all this killing.

What do you think about Obama killing an American citizen via drone extrajudicially?

  • Why does that matter? Does that excuse or justify these extrajudicial killings (murders?) in any way?

  • We don't know if the Trump admin is killing American citizens in these. They don't know who they are killing either. Maybe the first step to pointing a weapon is knowing who you are pointing it at.

As fucked up as the situation is, they were warned that they would be blown up if they tried it.

  • Giving warning you are going to violate international law doesn't make it any less illegal or immoral.