Trump’s Drug Boat Drone Strike Shows How ‘Terrorism’ Makes Everyone Killable
Trump’s Drug Boat Drone Strike Shows How ‘Terrorism’ Makes Everyone Killable
A terrorist can be anyone the White House declares: an American journalist, a suspected drug smuggler, or another government. The only requirement seems to be that the terrorist is located outside of U.S. soil. President Barack Obama insisted that the government should never “deploy armed drones over U.S. soil,” while he justified killing American citizens without trial, in secret, as a necessary battlefield tactic. Yet why couldn’t the battlefield be America itself, if the situation called for it? Who would be able to question the President’s judgment?
