Yoo Hoo

John Yoo became the bête noire of many on the portside during the Bush years, because he was the attorney who wrote the memoranda that the Bush administration used to justify some of their actions in the War on Terror. Plenty of people wanted Yoo to be prosecuted for war crimes or some other form of malfeasance.

Not surprisingly, Yoo feels the need to weigh in on the Obama adminstration's recent ministrations and he offers the following observation:

Let’s give partial credit where it is due. Apparently the Obama administration argues that al-Awlaki was a legitimate target because he is a member of an enemy engaged in hostile conduct against the United States. At least Obama has figured out that the war on terrorism is in fact a war, and that it is not limited just to Afghanistan. We should be thankful that Obama officials have quietly put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government).

There's more at the link.