John Bolton compares War on Terror to US Civil War

I’ve seen a whole lot of crazy news over the last week, but I somehow missed this gem from former UN Ambassador, John Bolton.

Bolton appeared on John Stossel’s show at the International Students For Liberty Conference in Washington, DC, to defend President Obama’s drone program and targeted assassinations.

During the Q&A, Skeptical Libertarian editor and Rutgers University student Daniel Bier asked Bolton if he would want due process protection if he were targeted. Bolton retorted that the government was right to kill thousands of Americans during the Civil War without due process, and (after being jeered by the crowd) accused libertarians of “discrediting their movement” by “defending the Confederacy.”

Is Mr. Bolton aware of the fact that (according to Lindsey Graham) the very drone program that he defends has killed more people than all of the United States’ documented cases of “terrorism” throughout all of history? Does anyone for a second believe that all of these people we’ve killed are terrorists?