Not only was it true before that phrase was uttered naively by Kay Adams in The Godfather, but it's still quite true, right through 2011 -
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/Anwar%20Al-Aulaqi
On September 30, the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) jointly carried out the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, using missiles fired from unmanned drones in Yemen. A second U.S. citizen, Samir Khan, was killed in the same attack. Two weeks later, Anwar al-Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen born in Colorado, was killed in another U.S. drone strike elsewhere in Yemen. The administration has not adequately explained the legal basis for these strikes, and it has not explained the factual basis, either.
More here - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2011/10/03/drone-assassinations-hurt-the-u-s-more-than-they-help-us/
As a bonus, check out the right-wingers and their classless comments in the last link.
Michael Corleone was right - "Oh, who's being naive, Kay?"
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