Obama Misleads On War
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:03 am
I thought about putting this in the "Wide World Of Sports" forum.
This president really needed to be shown the door this last election, but all that was offered as a viable alternative was someone even worse. I didn't vote for either creep.
In his inauguration address Monday, President Obama proclaimed that a “decade of war is now ending. Mere hours earlier, a U.S. drone dropped missiles over Yemen, killing two al-Qaida militants as part of an intensified airstrike campaign which began last month.
It has been well-established in reports (like those from the Washington Post‘s Greg Miller) that the Obama administration has set up a national security apparatus ensuring, contra the president’s words Monday, a perpetual war. Obama’s speech may have been referring to the withdrawal of troops form Iraq or the winding down of U.S. military leadership in Afghanistan, but an increasingly militarized CIA and the perpetuation of shadow wars in Yemen and Somalia, to name just two, let alone the U.S. funds and arms sent around the world to bolster or undermine regimes as U.S. interests dictate, make talk of ending war a semantic gamble at best.
Obama misleads over end to war - Salon.com
This president really needed to be shown the door this last election, but all that was offered as a viable alternative was someone even worse. I didn't vote for either creep.
In his inauguration address Monday, President Obama proclaimed that a “decade of war is now ending. Mere hours earlier, a U.S. drone dropped missiles over Yemen, killing two al-Qaida militants as part of an intensified airstrike campaign which began last month.
It has been well-established in reports (like those from the Washington Post‘s Greg Miller) that the Obama administration has set up a national security apparatus ensuring, contra the president’s words Monday, a perpetual war. Obama’s speech may have been referring to the withdrawal of troops form Iraq or the winding down of U.S. military leadership in Afghanistan, but an increasingly militarized CIA and the perpetuation of shadow wars in Yemen and Somalia, to name just two, let alone the U.S. funds and arms sent around the world to bolster or undermine regimes as U.S. interests dictate, make talk of ending war a semantic gamble at best.
Obama misleads over end to war - Salon.com