More than a day has passed since President Obama revealed the details of drone strikes that killed two Al Qaeda hostages—one of them American—and two Americans who had joined Al Qaeda. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has remained fairly quiet, releasing a one-sentence statement decrying the deaths of the hostages, but saying nothing about the citizens who joined Al Qaeda.
This was hardly the scenario Paul imagined in his 2013 drone filibuster, when he hypothesized an attack on an "enemy combatant" within the United States, "sitting outside a cafe." Yet Paul has subsequently said that American citizens should be charged and found guilty of crimes before being killed. And some of the people who were gripped by the original 2013 argument wonder if Paul is missing a moment.
