The Drone Papers
This phrasing is incorrect:<p>> <i>[there are x persons] President Obama ha[s] authorized U.S. special operations forces to assassinate</i><p>US special ops are the President's weapon. It doesn't make sense to say "yesterday I authorized my gun to kill a man"; what you want to say is "yesterday I killed a man".<p>President Obama didn't "authorize targeted killings" or whatever you want to call those.<p>He (and Bush before him) assassinated people, assassinates them without trial or due process, while smiling and holding babies and making jokes at the White House correspondents dinner, and complaining about the gun culture and mass killings.<p>The same day of the Umpqua College shooting (10 dead), US drones in Afghanistan targeted a hospital and killed 22 people (12 staff, 10 patients including 3 children).<p>If Obama really wants Americans to get rid of their guns, maybe he should start with his own.<p>But of course he won't, so forgive me for not listening to whatever he has to say.