Elections at home, assassination abroad
It is Election Day in the United States, a day reserved for the peaceful resolution of conflicts by democratic means.
Today NPR reports that the CIA has assassinated a suspected terrorist using a missile fired from an unmanned aircraft. Assassinations are illegal under U.S. law, but the Bush Administrations claims that law doesn’t apply in wartime, and of course we’re in a state of permanent war, so the White House is asserting the right to assassinate anyone, anywhere, at any time.