Obama gets it right on Awlaki

Everyone who reads this blog (or the old blog, for that matter) knows I have been very, very hard on Obama for his foreign policy.  But I like to think that I am non-partisan and even-handed in that I will actually give credit when Obama gets it right.  And in using drones to perform addition by subtraction on American-born Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al-Awlaki and his American henchman Samir Khan in Yemen, he got it right.

As Michelle Malkin explains:

Obama’s far left flank will be unhappy if the mission to kill Awlaki, an American citizen, was successful. They will again decry such drone strikes against American citizens as unprecedented and lawless.
On this, I will come to Obama’s defense.
Awlaki’s membership and leadership in al Qaeda is undisputed.
We are at war.

Malkin goes on to detail the crimes committed by Awlaki and Khan.  Rusty at the Jawa Report, who was personally threatened by Khan, also has more.  I suggest checking them out.
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