Talk about starting your military career at the top, with guns blazing. On point, Obama’s leaked, instantly notorious drone war represents the next costly surge against stealthy insurgents, perhaps a few genuine terrorists. But thanks to his high moral intentions, confirmed by the NY Times, these still qualify as “devoutly non-ideological” strikes.
Otherwise, we might equate Obama with full-fledged GOP crusaders who broke international rules and went badly rogue in Iraq. Nevertheless, this warrior campaigner follows the Queen’s Rules of Roguery: never retreat, just reload when gunning down home-grown, though unindicted, citizen evil-doers. Yet should we not worry that Obama’s military legacy (pace G. Wallace) will blaze into history as “drones today, drones tomorrow, drones forever?”…
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-becker/43592/going-rogue-the-audacity-of-assassination
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