Under the standards of international law, al Qa'ida is too puny to qualify as an enemy to be at war with. It is unable to carry out military operations.

Thus, the US should stop treating this as a war.

Obama misused the word "decimated", which means to kill 1/10 of the soldiers in a military unit. (It was a Roman punishment for mutiny.) Al Qa'ida has been far more than decimated.

A UK law professor suggests that prison is the wrong punishment for thieves.

Why the massive surveillance that Snowden showed to us is a threat to you … no matter who you are or what you do.

The US runs international "aid" for Haiti so that it goes to create resorts, mines and sweatshops owned by foreigners — while doing little for the Haitians who have been homeless for three years.

Obama claimed that Snowden should have taken advantage of the protections in the Whistleblower Protection Act. But they didn't apply to him, since he employed by a contractor, not by the US government.

Even if that law had applied to him, other examples show he would have been a fool to try to depend on it.