batman, f47

John Yoo argues that Obama has decided to stop further information-gathering because he doesn’t want to deal with the legal risks of taking these guys alive. It makes sense – this administration has repeatedly argued that terrorism is a law-enforcement problem, and the only way to square that view with the simultaneous policy of targeted assassinations and drone attacks is to conclude that Obama doesn’t want to deal with the legal problems that arise from pursuing the policy he claims to advocate.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834804576301032595527372.html

On the whole, though, I think Yoo is being generous. Obama has a very tiresome habit of repeatedly assuring one and all that the US will never be at war with Islam. Never? Really? And what makes him say that? It’s as if he knows perfectly well who and what the enemy is. Which begs the question – which side is he on? I don’t think he knows