nessus2 wrote:
I don't know if there is any place else to go with this.

I'm not sure if there is either, at least until we can get an actual look at the policy memo.

I don't disagree with you.  I don't agree, either.  The "slippery slope" isn't that this becomes a law enforcement tool, but that we've no way of containing it solely as a warfighting tool.  Two Administrations now have already claimed a link between drugs and terrorism.  It's not a broad step to saying drug-fighting is part of the War on Terror and the same authorities apply.  The slope isn't steep and it doesn't have to be that slippery to get from one to the other.  Yemen was a war zone, but it wasn't our war zone.  We weren't using military assets there, but CIA.  There's no bright line here, and that's what raises my concern.

Hoping the President does the right thing doesn't sit well with me.  It might well be that's still the best policy, but that doesn't make me happy with it.


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