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Follow-Up
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Do you remember when we blew up a car in Yeman because a guy from the cole bombing was in the car? Was that okay? Does it depend on whether he was a criminal or an enemy combatant? Because we need to be able to just kill them when we know where they are.
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If Tim McVeigh had gotten to Canada, would it have been OK to kill him there with a missile? What if we thought it was him, but weren't certain? And how do we know that the dead people in those cars in Yemen were who we thought they were?
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