A-Quada on the Run; GOP’s talking point of Obama’s Foreign Policy tanking

Kimberly Dozier and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press, US officials: US attack in Yemen kills al-Awlaki reports that “in a devastating double-blow to al-Qaida's most dangerous franchise, U.S. counterterrorism forces killed two American citizens who played key roles in inspiring attacks against the U.S., U.S. and Yemeni officials said Friday.  U.S-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, who edited the slick Jihadi Internet magazine, were killed in an air strike on their convoy in Yemen by a joint CIA-U.S. military operation, according to counterterrorism officials. Al-Awlaki was targeted in the killing, but Khan apparently was not targeted directly.  Following the strike, a U.S. official outlined new details of al-Awlaki's involvement in anti-U.S. operations, including the attempted 2009 Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound aircraft. The official said that al-Awlaki specifically directed the men accused of trying to bomb the Detroit-bound plane to detonate an explosive device over U.S. airspace to maximize casualties.  The official also said al-Awlaki had a direct role in supervising and directing a failed attempt to bring down two U.S. cargo aircraft by detonating explosives concealed inside two packages mailed to the U.S. The U.S. also believes Awlaki had sought to use poisons, including cyanide and ricin, to attack Westerners”, but what seems to have everyone’s attention is the killing raises questions that the death of other al-Qaida leaders, including bin Laden, did not.  Al-Awlaki is a U.S. citizen, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, who had not been charged with any crime. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government's authority to kill an American without trial.”

While I understand the stance of Civil Liberties Groups I do not understand how we can choose to be so single-focused.  We send our military into wars all the time and no one says much except when money becomes an issue.  We put to death hundreds of people here in this country even though we are acutely aware that those so-called trails that they got were not trails at all and many were innocent, yet it only crosses our minds when its someone we know or its close to election time.  Terrorists are now more careful about what they do and how they do it even more now than they ever was because this president has proven what all of our past president has meant when they said we will find you and bring you to justice one way or the other.  It’s now very clear that Obama’s refusal to rattle his saber is not a sign of weakness and this message is getting through to those who once may have set out to this nation and it citizens harm.  Wouldn’t it be strange to find out that’s why so many Americans being held abroad are being released?