{"id":6438,"date":"2012-05-29T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2012-05-29T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:25:16","slug":"krauthammer-on-the-nobel-peace-prize-winners-obama-kill-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/krauthammer-on-the-nobel-peace-prize-winners-obama-kill-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Krauthammer on the Nobel Peace Prize Winner&#8217;s (Obama) Kill List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xT_sbWp9V3s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Talk of the day is about the New York Times story on his kill list using armed drones to go after terrorists. I thought the war on terror was over exactly who is he going after? One thing is for sure about the Emperor, he is one hardcore killing machine using drones and special forces!<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html\">Secret \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKill List\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Proves a Test of Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Principles and Will<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"oval office\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/SUB-SUB-GUIDANCE-1\/SUB-SUB-GUIDANCE-1-articleLarge.jpg?resize=288%2C173\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"173\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nBy Jo Becker and Scott Shane<br \/>\nWASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a>, overseeing the regular Tuesday counterterrorism meeting of two dozen security officials in the White House Situation Room, took a moment to study the faces. It was Jan. 19, 2010, the end of a first year in office punctuated by terrorist plots and culminating in a brush with catastrophe over Detroit on Christmas Day, a reminder that a successful attack could derail his presidency. Yet he faced adversaries without uniforms, often indistinguishable from the civilians around them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How old are these people?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he asked, according to two officials present. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If they are starting to use children,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said of <a title=\"More articles about Al Qaeda.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/a\/al_qaeda\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Al Qaeda<\/a>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we are moving into a whole different phase.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It was not a theoretical question: Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nominations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kill list,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d poring over terrorist suspects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 biographies on what one official calls the macabre \u00e2\u20ac\u0153baseball cards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of an unconventional war. When a rare opportunity for a<a title=\"More articles about unmanned aerial vehicles.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/u\/unmanned_aerial_vehicles\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">drone<\/a> strike at a top terrorist arises \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but his family is with him \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of the day is about the New York Times story on his kill list using armed drones to go after terrorists. 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