The Guardian leader, of course, takes the view that the country should not defend itself unless every action is publicly debated, scrutinised and democratically approved by honest working people. it quotes:
Yasmine Ahmed, director of Rights Watch (UK), said: “There is insufficient information in the public domain … to know whether the drone strikes that killed three individuals in Syria, including two British citizens, were done lawfully.
“These strikes set a dangerous precedent for UK government activity. The UK government can now kill at will with no oversight. If the only oversight for these actions is internal confidential government legal advice, which the British public never gets to see, that is no oversight at all. To take military action in the name of the British public and not fully inform the public about the legal basis for doing so is undemocratic.”
Ahmed said Rights Watch (UK) would support the families of the dead men if they wanted to bring legal actions for compensation against the government.