In times like these, when we praise a VP debate for breadcrumbs of civility, I think more about Obama

He was a very decent man and would have been an incredible peacetime leader

Unfortunately we were already at war, and Obama did not have Lincoln’s good luck to notice it, nor his melancholy to navigate it

It is ironic that he won the Nobel Peace Prize whilst increasing drone strikes 1000% vs Bush — one of which intentionally targetted and killed a US citizen

Perhaps a well spoken man. Decent? Most certainly not

It is ironic that he won the Nobel Peace Prize whilst increasing drone strikes 1000% vs Bush — one of which intentionally targetted and killed a US citizen

Perhaps a well spoken man. Decent? Most certainly not

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/ten-years-after-the-al-awlaki-killing-a-reckoning-for-the-united-states-drones-wars-awaits/

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush/

The error is in thinking that the president has control over everything

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I think the guy tried to take an easy dub (pivot to drones after years of land war in the Middle East) but put us in a deeper moral quandary as a result

That’s classic peacetime leadership but not an invalidation of Obama being a decent man

Fair (maybe in reality) but war and especially undeclared war with military aggression is technically THE thing the president has control over if anything :)