Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by sseveran on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:18AM
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Its almost two decades now, although one could argue that this has been going on for almost three decades depending on when one thinks this conflict started. The thing I find the most insane is that at the end of next year young men and women will begin to deploy to Afghanistan and other bases around the world that were not even born when 9/11 happened. And that is something that we should not accept.
A. America tries to have a high standard of justice and the value of a life
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B. Countries at war usually will summarily kill enemies, defectors, and often innocents for convenience sake with 0 recourse or oversight.
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I think the questions we need to ask are whether these looser moral standards we apply to actual wars should still apply to the situations overseas that are not declared wars by congress and have been going on for over a decade and involve targets who are not armed combatants on the battlefield.
We also need to ask at what point is a justification owed to the american people on this.