Columnist Ben Shapiro: On Sept. 30, 2011, two American Predator drones based out of a Saudi Arabian CIA facility swept into Yemen and fired Hellfire missiles at a car containing terrorist and American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. He was killed. So, too, was terrorist buddy Samir Khan, an American born in Saudi Arabia. ... Last Saturday, Obama announced that the United States had traded five Taliban terrorist leaders in exchange for American Sgt. [sic] Bowe Bergdahl. As the days passed, it became clear that Bergdahl was no American hero: he was, in fact, a deserter. ... Obama immediately signaled that Bergdahls status as an American was an overriding factor in bartering terrorists for his release. ... The point here is not that Bergdahl should have been droned, or that al-Awlaki shouldnt have been. The point is that the president of the United States now has the apparent authority to determine whether or not someone deserves to live -- indeed, whether he deserves to be hit with a Hellfire missile or whether we should exchange high-level terrorists for him.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:17:26 +0000
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