Referring to a debate within the US government between the State Department’s Harold Koh and DOD’s Jeh Johnson, Anderson saw no difference between targeting higher-ups in Al Qaeda (or associated forces operationally allied with AQ) and targeting foot-soldiers; Human Rights First’s Rona agreed on this point, but clearly remained worried about the broad geographic scope of US strikes, suggesting that the US had given its forces a global “license to… [read post]