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Unspoken deal? Obama literally said we "should look forward not backwards" to Bush's crimes as soon as he got elected. And now Trump may hire some of the same w

by mtgx 10y ago

Unspoken deal? Obama literally said we "should look forward not backwards" to Bush's crimes as soon as he got elected. And now Trump may hire some of the same worst of the worst people that Bush hired, and went unpunished. History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, especially when people refuse to condemn certain past actions and "move forward" as if nothing happened. And then get surprised that those same actions are done again. This is one of the best articles I've read post-election. I do hope this time America actually does wake-up and look itself in the mirror. It's about time it did that. https://medium.com/@omarkamel/im-arab-and-many-of-us-are-glad-that-trump-won-c98e1c6ae891 https://medium.com/@omarkamel/im-arab-and-many-of-us-are-gla... I've also said before that Americans don't really get what mass surveillance is about, and are thus allowing it to happen and expand under their "favorite president" because they've never really had to suffer for it, as some eastern European countries have. Well, now, they may get that opportunity, and even some staunch surveillance defenders are getting freaked out about it. Good luck. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161111/00230136015/long-time-mass-surveillance-defenders-freak-out-now-that-trump-will-have-control.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161111/00230136015/long-...

wuschel 10y ago
Let's not forget that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for ...well, for not being Bush? A prize from a war profiteur in explosives and munitions to a war monger of drones. So many things are failing, sometimes I think we are a hopeless race. But fortunately, there are decent people around - and that gives me hope.
roywiggins 10y ago
I'm not saying Obama's look-forward-not-backward schtick was the moral decision, and I can't really defend it on moral grounds at all, so I won't. But, the notion of a new president coming in and immediately prosecuting members of the previous administration suddenly sounds a lot scarier when the next president has no moral compass and has openly run on the platform of locking up his political enemies. That said, the architects of the Bush torture program deserve to rot in jail.

by mtgx 10y ago

wuschel 10y ago

Let's not forget that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for ...well, for not being Bush? A prize from a war profiteur in explosives and munitions to a war monger of drones. So many things are failing, sometimes I think we are a hopeless race. But fortunately, there are decent people around - and that gives me hope.

roywiggins 10y ago

I'm not saying Obama's look-forward-not-backward schtick was the moral decision, and I can't really defend it on moral grounds at all, so I won't. But, the notion of a new president coming in and immediately prosecuting members of the previous administration suddenly sounds a lot scarier when the next president has no moral compass and has openly run on the platform of locking up his political enemies. That said, the architects of the Bush torture program deserve to rot in jail.