U.S. Air Strike Kills Over 150 in Somalia; Pentagon Claims "Self-Defense"

On March 7, the government of the United States of America ordered the military to fire missiles from drones and jets in Somalia, a strike that left at least 150 people dead.

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Within hours, the Obama administration released a statement justifying the attack as an act of “self-defense.”

Peter Cook, spokesman for the Department of Defense, said the target was an “al-Shabaab training camp.” Al-Shabaab, the statement claims, is “a terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.”
“The removal of these fighters degrades al-Shabaab's ability to meet the group's objectives in Somalia, including recruiting new members, establishing bases and planning attacks on U.S. and AMISOM [African Union Mission in Somalia] forces,” Cook writes in the press release.

In other words, we got them before they could get us.
Self-defense.

To constitutionalists, there is a big problem with this rationalization. It violates our most sacred principles as a people to permit our government to summarily execute over 150 people without due process and without the consent of the representatives of the people.

Granted, there are many who believe the Pentagon’s claim that “the fighters who were scheduled to depart the camp posed an imminent threat to U.S. and AMISOM forces.”

Apart from the denial of due process, that statement should stir up the ire of friends of liberty, prompting them to ask why the United States has “forces” deployed in Africa. There is no provision in the Constitution granting to the president — or any part of the executive branch — the power to send the U.S. military into foreign countries for the purpose of protecting the citizens of that country, particularly when Congress has issued no declaration of war, the only constitutional means whereby the military might of the republic can be exercised.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/22747-u-s-air-strike-kills-over-150-in-somalia-pentagon-claims-self-defense

U.S. Air Strike Kills Over 150 in Somalia; Pentagon Claims "Self-Defense"

U.S. Air Strike Kills Over 150 in Somalia; Pentagon Claims "Self-Defense"

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