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We took down three Iranian ships when I was Marine in Persian Gulf. Had to make sure they weren’t smuggling black market weapons to Saddam. You see, in the final analysis Iran has always been willing to support anyone who would kill Americans. Even old enemies. We fast roped to their decks armed with 12 gauge “rout guns.” Bullets bounce off bulkheads and ricochet around all that steel on a ship. That’s why the shotguns. Put crewmen up against interior bulkheads, placed officers on bridge, and searched the ship with crewmen...most often on these merchant ships they were Filipino. Then we got picked up by smaller naval craft after climbing down the sides of the vessels.Why go through all that trouble when you can just eliminate the threat?Oh stop it. If a Muslim farted in an elevator you'd call it a gas attack and be ready to nuke their home country.
The U.S. should have built up all the evidence they needed and simply arrested the guy and took him to the Hague and gotten him convicted and given the death penalty, not killed him with a missile attack in a sovereign country.
...because what they did was an act of war based on international law? They did a missile attack in a sovereign country...
But I guess laws don't matter when it is the U.S. I love my country, but we are supposed to be the leaders with better morals and ethical standards than the scum of the world like the man we just killed.
The missile attack was in response to not only the killing of an American, but the attack on our embassy, which is considered to be a sovereign entity of the United States...
Is an Embassy on Foreign Soil the Sovereign Territory of the Host Country or the Embassy's Country?
Therefore we have every right to use whatever means are necessary to protect and defend it, unless your name is Hillary Clinton, and your embassy happens to be in Benghazi.
The embassy is part of the United States despite being in another country. They have the right to defend it. The man they killed not there, he was at an airport in Iraq.
General Patreus who is a big war hawk just questioned the move as well.
The United Sates has worked hard to get new people in power and to get a better relationship with the Iraqi leaders. Using a drone to do a missile strike in THEIR country without THEIR permission to kill a leader from THEIR neighboring country is a reckless decision.
So is mining/hijacking oil freighters, shooting down a U.S. drone, attacking Saudi oil fields, all at the same time while funding and exporting terrorism thru out the ME.