The issue focused on the House and Senate bill to expand the military's ability to kill American citizens on US soil. The decision in the case of al-Awlaki is not as clear-cut as it may seem. The question is not whether the US may kill an American citizen on US soil, but whether the US may kill an American citizen on US soil in the first place. The question is more difficult to answer. The American government has been taking American citizens for years to their deaths. In some cases