Over at Bloomberg View, I note that Obama has encountered more opposition to his policy on Drone strikes on the TV show Homeland than he did in the presidential campaign.
The president’s aides told the Times that he is a “student of writings on war by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas” and can be trusted to make the right judgments. His practical definition of combatants as anyone we happened to kill suggests otherwise, although too much of the program is secret to say for sure.