On 26/08/2016, at 1:47 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would not be so harsh on Obama though -
> whatever one may say about his policies, he left remarkably clean air after
> himself, free of any malfeasance, corruption, fraud, or outright criminal
> conduct (unlike the Clintons). As I see, "his" policies are crafted by the
> Clinton machine inside the Dem party - just like Bush's policies were
> crafted by Karl Rove, Dick Chaney and the Vulcans. Obama and Bush are for
> the most pat figureheads announcing these policies.
Welcome back, I missed you.
You need to slightly re-phrase that: "... [RELATIVELY] free of any malfeasance, corruption, fraud, or outright criminal conduct (unlike the Clintons)."
There is the small matter of the long campaign of murdering people around the world by remote control drones. Bad bastards for sure, though that's only when they get the intelligence right and as I have remarked before, agencies like the CIA are corrupt and incompetent on a massive scale so I would have serious doubts about them getting it right very often.
But killing innocent people, or at best executing possibly guilty people without trial, is stupid as well as criminal, evil and immoral. Because drones are relatively cheap and accessible technology, so its setting a really dangerous precedent to start killing people willy-nilly all around the world with them. Sure to give other dictatorships, who unlike the USA can't afford gargantuan military machines, funny ideas.
But yeah, he hasn't started nearly as many wars as those other Democrats, and certainly not as stupid wars as his simian predecessor. I take your point.
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