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> (look at some of the terrible stuff Obama did with regard to drone strikes and military operations) Not relevant to the discussion at hand, but I see this co
by croon 8y ago
> (look at some of the terrible stuff Obama did with regard to drone strikes and military operations)
Not relevant to the discussion at hand, but I see this comment a lot. Yes, the Obama administration executed a lot more drone strikes than the Bush administration. However, there has been 2243 drone strikes in the first two years of the Trump administration, compared with 1878 drone strikes in the entirety (8 years) of Obamas tenure.
I'm not saying I support either of those, but comments like the one you made is inflammatory without being informative.
- luckylion 8y ago> I'm not saying I support either of those, but comments like the one you made is inflammatory without being informative. Once the door is fully opened, everybody rushes through. Once more-or-less targeted assassinations have been normalized by a government, you can be sure that it will be used by every government following them, and ultimately by every other government on the planet. Effective tools will always be used. Be that mass surveillance, drone strikes, offensive cyber warfare or kidnapping people on foreign soil to fly them to torture camps.
- overgard 8y agoThe point was that people were willing to overlook some actions that are at best morally ambiguous and at worst set an extremely scary precedent because the guy was charming and likeable (I liked him too). That an arguably much worse guy gets to use that precedent and expanded executive power makes it even worse. I don’t see how that’s inflammatory when my point is that an email scandal wouldn’t have hurt a stronger candidate if assassinations via drone strikes doesn’t hurt them; and that email stuff really seems like a sticking point when it comes to wiki leaks and the left.