Our Constitution is Not Suicidal

All last week, the blogs were buzzing that some elements of the left wing of the Democratic Party were in the nascent stages of preparing a case against President Obama for the continued use of drones to kill members of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Their position is that innocents, including children, are unjustly killed in our efforts to combat terrorism. This is so, but you will seldom find anyone involved in these missions who take any pleasure in knowing that sometimes innocents are lost in carrying out the objective; and it also doesn’t dull the senses because these innocents are deemed collateral damages-Moreover, this is the nature of war. If we were to follow the logic of these elements of the Democratic Party, then we would have to disinter the body of Churchill, who, during World War 11, sanctioned the relentless bombing of Germany’s Dresden; we would have to dig up Harry Truman for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and President Ronald Reagan too for killing Kaddafi’s daughter when the USA bombed Libya for the killing of its soldiers in the German discotheque. The often spoken adage that one cannot cry fire in a crowded theatre, notwithstanding that the Constitution’s First Amendment gives one the right to do so, is not a carte blanche unqualified right of free speech. The same goes with the current posture of those who would prevent the President from using one of our most effective weapons against the Jihadists. Many lives were lost for the current rights we now enjoy under our cherish Constitution, but those rights must never be used to make it suicidal. Approximately two years or so, some terrorists were asked what country would they prefer to live in-ironically, a vast majority of them chose the United States. Perhaps these United States were chosen because of the amenities our cherish Constitution afford-of course, we, along with our surveyed terrorists, must be alive to enjoy said amenities….

-Verily Prime.