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

he literally expanded the so called “war on terror” and made every effort to ensure US military involvement was less visible domestically, and changed strategies to replace conventional warfare with drone strikes,  cyberwarfare, and spec ops

he was a war monger but optics made him look like a peaceful negotiator

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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

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