Ben Lerner at The American Spectator today writes on the need to take another look at revoking citizenship from US citizens like Samir Khan (pictured below) who become terrorist operatives:
To be sure, jihadist terrorists generally could care less whether they are citizens of any specific country — after all, their unifying goal is global Islamic rule under a Caliphate implementing shariah law, an arrangement rendering the nation-state system irrelevant. But revoking American citizenship from terrorist operatives is tactically smart in that it deprives American terrorists of the use of their American passport for international travel, and under the Military Commissions Act of 2009 also removes ambiguity about trying such individuals before military commissions rather than civilian courts, where they would otherwise receive the constitutional protections given to common criminals in our criminal justice system.