Jiihadi John Assasinated

[AFTT47]

Why do you use the word "assassinated"?

Because I don't see any other word as applicable. We targeted a specific individual who is not a particularly great military threat. Like I said, any fool can commit murder This guy did it in a particularly horrendous way - a way which can easily be argued is a crime against all humanity. But we killed him without a trial. I can see justifying that against a particularly important military combatant like the Japanese military commander we went after in WWII but Jihadi John was just a thug.

Like I said, I'm glad we did it. It just seems like a dangerous precedent though. What if one of us does something the U.S. government REALLY doesn't like? Should we be shot down without a trial? I guess that depends on what we did but the thought of that kind of summary judgement is troublesome to me and I'm not even one of those people who have a slavish devotion to law.