{"id":527346,"date":"2010-04-14T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:48:24","slug":"robert-wright-is-very-unhappy-with-drone-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527346","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wright Is Very Unhappy with Drone Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kenneth Anderson <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am unable to say much at this moment, either to Kevin&#8217;s question below or to this <a  href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/13\/title-2\/?pagemode=print\">Robert Wright &#8220;Opinionator&#8221; blog post in the New York Times<\/a>, but I did want to flag it for your attention. \u00a0Wright is unhappy with both drone warfare and targeting of US citizens, and many other things besides:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Students of the law might raise a couple of questions: 1) Doesn\u2019t it violate international law to fire missiles into Pakistan (especially on a roughly weekly basis) when the Pakistani government has given no formal authorization? 2) Wouldn\u2019t firing a missile at al-Awlaki in Yemen compound the international-law question with a constitutional question \u2014 namely whether giving the death penalty to an American without judicially establishing his guilt deprives him of due process?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not qualified to answer these questions, and, besides, it doesn\u2019t really matter what the correct answers are. The Obama administration has its lawyers\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/progressiverealist.org\/blogpost\/did-harold-koh-also-provide-legal-justification-targeted-killings-americans-suspected-terro\">scurrying to convince us<\/a> that the answers are no and no, somewhat as the Bush administration dispatched John Yoo to justify its torture policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Hmm.<\/em> That said, I must flee the scene, though I&#8217;ll try to say something to various of these issues later on; my disagreement with this view is not exactly news to Our Regular Readers. \u00a0Meanwhile, though, I&#8217;ve been reading through the Virginia symposium pieces, on all their various topics, and it looks like a heck of a good issue and grist for discussion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/1TOgm3BSwPU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kenneth Anderson I am unable to say much at this moment, either to Kevin&#8217;s question below or to this Robert Wright &#8220;Opinionator&#8221; blog post in the New York Times, but I did want to flag it for your attention. \u00a0Wright is unhappy with both drone warfare and targeting of US citizens, and many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}