When Pat Buchanan complains about Obama killing Americans fighting with al-Qaeda, I mean.
And Nixon was talking about the Watergate burglary, anyway, as I recall.
Nothing to do with national security.
And Obama is not wrong to claim the power to order the killing of Americans fighting on the side of al-Qaeda, with whom the Congress says we are at war.
Still, if Pat is urging that we back away from, or at least
very much dial back, the forever war on al-Qaeda and associated Muslim
terrorists, I'm glad of it.
Oh, it is interesting that Pat seems to be saying that the power he says Nixon claimed, the power to break the law domestically in small ways for national security reasons, really does belong to the president.
And what does he mean to suggest about the powers Bush claimed - and about which I am not so distressed as the professional left?
And hasn't Obama, too, claimed the power of indefinite detention?
Just trying to keep up, here.
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