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It's easy to say he "deserved it" or "it was the cost-effective solution." But -- and this is what I find deeply unsettling -- the laws which permitted killing him make no distinction between al-Awlaki in Yemen and, say, Joe Blow in York, PA.
This isn't a "slippery slope" argument; we're already at the bottom of the hill. The only way in which al-Awlaki was actually unique, in a legal sense, is that the President explicitly authorized killing him.
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