Examiner Editorial: Obama uses drones to kill Americans without trial

President Obama took office convinced that his predecessor had adopted immoral national security policies. He was determined not to make the same mistakes.

“[F]aced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions,” Obama said in May 2009. “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us — Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists and citizens — fell silent.”