I nearly always agree with Dr. Sowell, but he's off-base for once. The problem with drone strikes on US citizens who have joined terrorist organizations is twofold. First, due process is not being done, by the rules the administration set up. That means US citizens are being deprived of life by our government by presidential fiat, without a judge or jury passing sentence - very disturbing. Second, the innocent children of these people - children who are also US citizens - are put at risk. One, at least, has apparently been killed. That's way beyond the pale.
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
I can't get excited by the question of whether Senator Robert Menendez had sex with a prostitute in Central America. It is her word against his -- and when it comes to a prostitute's word against a politician's word, that is too close to call.
If an American citizen went off to join Hitler's army during World War II, would there have been any question that this alone would make it legal to kill him? Why then is there an uproar about killing an American citizen who has joined terrorist organizations that...
Our citizens' civil rights to trial, etc, to terrorists, and obliteration to the children and surrounding strangers of a traitor. And little Liberal outcry about it.
And if you can trace a traitor, you can try to arrest them. But it does please me that none feel safe, other than those cozy to community organizers.