AP is reporting that Ron Paul has condemned the airstrike that killed Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Alawki as an assassination since al-Alawki was born in the USA which makes him a citizen. Statements like that one take Paul beyond the role of the crazy uncle and put him instead in the position of total loon. Here is a guy who is part of Al Qaeda, against which the USA is fighting a war. His citizenship is irrelevant in the war since Al Qaeda is not a nation state. Al Alawki has been responsible for the continuing attacks on Americans and was in a position to plan many more such attacks. Taking him out in a war is not an assassination any more than the deaths of German soldiers on D-day were assassinations. Congressman Paul, it is called WAR. Remember that word. WAR! We have an entire armed forces that has as its goal the defeat of America's enemies, usually by killing them. That's what happened, plain and simple.
Ron Paul is one of the few politicians who can actually make Obama look good.
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