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Ken Roth says the war against al Qaeda is over
Short version: Since Obama is switching from a military response to a lawfare response, why not declare the war against Al Qaeda over.
Roth also said in conclusion: Those are the standards for policing, not war. So why not take the next logical step and declare the war against al-Qaeda over? Yes, there may be a price to pay. Obama's political opponents will holler and score points after the next, inevitable terrorist attack. But the cost of using war rhetoric to shunt aside appropriate limits on lethal force is even higher. Plenty of governments are eager for excuses to summarily kill their enemies, however tenuously defined -- even those living in the United States. The U.S. government has also committed abuses in the name of fighting terrorism. The Obama administration should rethink its overly elastic definition of war on al-Qaeda and call an end to it. Yeah, I remember scoring points that day four of our people were brutally murdered in Benghazi in a f*ck up that Obama still won't own up to nine months on. I think it was a three pointer, but it may have been a safety, for two points. Only the left scores political points on dead bodies. Whether they make them dead or not. Ken Roth has been the exec director of Human Rights Watch since 1993 and before that was the deputy exec director of HRW
Posted by: lord garth 2013-08-05 |
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