{"id":14860,"date":"2012-05-03T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14860"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:29:31","slug":"on-the-legality-of-obamas-drone-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/on-the-legality-of-obamas-drone-war\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Legality of Obama&#8217;s Drone War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Politico, Daphne Eviator of Human Rights First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0512\/75863.html\">contests<\/a> the Obama administration&#8217;s legal justification for a borderless, undeclared drone war in multiple countries, which is that the AUMF grants them the authority to take lethal action against al-Qaeda and its affiliates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though international law recognizes that a state may go to war against armed terrorist groups, that\u2019s called a \u201cnon-international armed conflict.\u201d Because of the difficulty of identifying the enemy, different rules apply.<\/p>\n<p>In a non-international armed conflict like this, the only \u201cenemies\u201d targetable are those \u201cdirectly participating in hostilities\u201d against the United States, or performing a \u201ccontinuous combat function\u201d with armed groups targeting the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her arguments are even more starkly made in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/04\/26\/obama-approves-cia-request-to-kill-unidentified-individuals-in-yemen-drone-war\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=jNyiT-3zLoKe8QS0y-ygDA&amp;ved=0CAUQFjAA&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfwjchGJ-JV6Mc9kIYLXedmvoxyg\">now public policy of conducting &#8220;signature strikes<\/a>,&#8221; that is, targeting groups of unidentified individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Politico, Daphne Eviator of Human Rights First, contests the Obama administration&#8217;s legal justification for a borderless, undeclared drone war in multiple countries, which is that the AUMF grants them the authority to take lethal action against al-Qaeda and its affiliates. Though international law recognizes that a state may go to war against armed terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14862,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860\/revisions\/14862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}