The Times made the telling point that Obama\u2019s orders now \u201ccan target suspects in Yemen whose names they do not know.\u201d Such is the drift to one-man rule, consuming so much of his time in this way at the expense of addressing hundreds of thousands of preventable fatalities yearly here in the U.S. from occupational disease, environmental pollution, hospital infections and other documented dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n
Based on deep reporting, Becker and Shane allowed that \u201cboth Pakistan and Yemen are arguably less stable and more hostile to the United States than when Obama became president.\u201d The people in the countries we target know what we must remember: We are their occupiers, their invaders, the powerful supporters for decades of their own brutal tyrants. We\u2019re in their backyard, which more than any other impetus spawned al-Qaeda in the first place.<\/p>\n
So lawyers of America, apart from a few stalwarts among you, what is your breaking point? When will you uphold your oath of office and work to restore constitutional authorities and boundaries? Someday, people will ask \u2013 where were the lawyers? (Ralph Nader)<\/p>\n
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