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In reply to the discussion: Apparently this is the breaking point, [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I am completely opposed to a president assuming the power to decide on an individual basis who gets droned or not outside a theater of war.
But the answer is not to remove Obama, the answer is to establish a procedure that divides the responsibility and decision-making process so that there are checks and balances in place and the authority over drone use cannot be arbitrarily exercised by the President and a group of his advisers. We need some sort of independent or multi- or bi-partisan body that reviews the President's decisions and OKs them -- something like the FISA Court was supposed to be with regard to eavesdropping.
Nothing against Obama, but the authority to decide who dies in a drone strike outside an actual geographical area designated as an area of war should be shared and reviewed. It should not just be one person plus that person's appointees and certainly not be just the executive branch.