Good to see that our leaders are discarding the fiction that the Global War on Terror is a conflict that can ever, or will ever, be concluded:
Last weekend, a U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, despite the recent demand by a Pakistani parliamentary committee that such operations end."I'm here today because President Obama has instructed us to be more open with the American people about these efforts," Brennan said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank.
"These targeted strikes are legal," he said, citing legal opinions from the administration, the U.S. Constitution and the Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by Congress after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense," Brennan said.
So, even after we have incinerated Al Qaeda and decimated the Taliban, there will still be those pesky "associated forces" to wipe out, and their extermination will enjoy the full legal backing of our government. Meanwhile, the potholes continue to multiply on Wilshire Boulevard as the empire slithers into irreversible decay. Good times!
---Vitelius
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