The justification that U.S. officials use for their assassination of people overseas, including American citizens, is that the people they’re killing are bent on killing U.S. forces. Thus, the justification is sort of a modified self-defense concept—they’re trying to kill us and so we’re assassinating them before they have a chance to kill us.

Most mainstream commentators have come to passively accept this justification for the U.S. assassination program. You can especially see this when they comment on people killed … Continue reading Empire vs. Peace, Freedom, Morality, and Prosperity