which is a military term used for when you have a discussion like that. they re the guys that go in and try to find holes, pick apart the argument, try to find the problem with it, and i hope that they have that vigorous kind of discussion. again, we don t know. again, the point here is that once you authorize, once we decide as a country to go to war, you know, all this is what happens. there are civilian casualties. there are difficult legal questions. there are there is a whole issue of blow-back which happens in afghanistan every time there s a raid on a village. it creates resentment. all those kinds of things happen many war. the basic question, again, hate to keep coming back to this, but are we at war, and if so, who are we killing, and why? that s really the basic question here. and that is why much of what you said is sound. the memo is about the authority to kill people who are far from any battlefield, any recognized
to be reviewed by the intelligence committees, but i think more probably needs to be done. i have a question for david wood. first of all, david, huge fan of your writing. have you guys met? never met him. don t know him. just a huge fan. let me ask you, again, back to the operational aspects of the drone program, what do we know about how who has to check off the boxes to say this person is, indeed, a member of al qaeda or related to al qaeda, is indeed an imminent threat? who is the person that has to make those determinations? is it clear he is not the president. that goes to the final tally, but who down the chain has to make those determinations. it s a great question. once you decide that you re going to fight the war on terror then everything else sort of falls in place, and all these other questions about whether it s legal to kill american citizens, which is important for the to sort out, gets subsumed and the whole business of war fighting, which we re good at and e
air restaurant in yemen. his killing has never been acknowledged by the government, let alone any accountability provided for it. michael, we read some numbers about the american public. when you see something like 11% of the country doesn t really know how it feels or perhaps feels megtively about the use of drones, that then undercuts the argument this is a dialogue we need to have. do you think it s because the public sort of understands that sometimes we have to do dirty things to take down bad people? or is it a lack of understanding about what it is that we re doing over there? i think it s a mix. i they in some ways, you know, americans have gotten what they voted for, which is we want to end the war, and we want to bring the troops home, but we want to stay safe. you know, it s sort of many some ways they ve endorsed the drone policy, and also i think it s a great point, you know, it s over there. it s things that, you know, they re keeping us safe and the soldiers are home
about neville chamberlain when you hear that phrase, peace in our time. british prime minister david cameron, who hardly has been a hawk on these matters has said here in the past few days that we may be looking at decades of struggle against al qaeda and i think he s right. i think the global war on terrorism has not gone away. we can ignore it in the united states when there aren t manifest stations of it manifest stations of it, we ve been at war with al qaeda in afghanistan and it is happening in north africa. we can follow the peace in our time approach and get serious about the threat before it strikes in the american homeland again. martha: well, it certainly hit home for the three americans killed in algeria. they know there is clearly a war still going on. ambassador bolton, thank you very much. we ll see you soon. thank you. martha: as i mentioned three americans died in the terror attack. seven others survived. incredible story of a
state of new york, more than twice as many as california. five years after 9/11, by the government s own very political figuring, the hoosier state is the most target rich state in the nation. if any rational sense of proportion in identifying terrorism targets had been sacrificed to politics and simple greed, there may have been no hope from the beginning for a sense of proportion in identifying real potential terrorists and terrorist tactics. coming up america s collateral damage in our own war on terror. it was the darkest, most harrowing ordeal myself or my family ever had to experience. aww man. [ male announcer ] returns are easy with free pickup from the u.s. postal service. we ll even drop off boxes if you need them. visit usps.com pay, print, and have it picked up for free. any time of year. nice sweater. thank you.