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Even if you're extremely charitable in all of those cases President Obama also started and defined the rules for what is essentially illegal drone warfare again
by pdeuchler 11y ago
Even if you're extremely charitable in all of those cases President Obama also started and defined the rules for what is essentially illegal drone warfare against citizens, not enemy combatants, in other countries. That's not even counting the pandora's box he opened by killing American citizens by drone without any sort of due process. To me those two simple facts far outweigh anything else he's done, both domestically and internationally.
If you had told me in 2008 that Obama would be signing extrajudicial death-by-drone warrants every Tuesday morning I would have laughed. But, here we are...
- pnut 11y agoAnd if you go back in time to the Vietnam era, and tell anyone that in the 21st Century, the president would personally authorize the deaths of individual militants when prosecuting a war, they would think we now live in a liberal utopia.