I already pointed that out earlier in my post, how the 16 year old was killed by Obama, and now the 8 year old sister was killed by Trump, both children of the traitor and terrorist.
And liberals of course only show outrage now that is has to do with Trump. Pretty hilarious, if you ask me.
Actually, many liberals/progressives have been bitching about the drone strikes under Obama. Here’s a thread from 2013 on this board, for example, from a poster with similar impressions as you that the left wing hasn’t addressed this issue, and with posters responding that it is, indeed, an issue. In my experience, that’s one of the issues the progressives were particularly unhappy with under Obama. I mean, for Christ sake, here’s Rachel Maddow expressing her problems with it. It wasn’t exactly ignored by the progressives. The more run-of-the-mill centrist Democrats were not particularly vocal about this issue.
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Perhaps most tragic of all is that — just as was true in Iraq — al Qaeda had very little presence in Yemen before the Obama administration began bombing and droning it and killing civilians, thus driving people into the arms of the militant group. As the late, young Yemeni writer Ibrahim Mothana told Congress in 2013:
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Somehow I do not think that article was about praising Trump, in reality is criticizes both Obama and Trump and I think I have been critical of the drone strikes in the past.
The point from Greenwald is still standing. This is not good at all and Trump is continuing with that policy and making it worse.
Hi! Off-topic, but relevant:
How did you hear about this message board? I’m sure that you posted somewhere before this so… where was that?
I’m just curious because I’d really like to see where you are getting your facts and this level of indoctrination from.
Thanks!
Those babies… Be very careful how you approach them, citizen. One minute they are gurgling innocently and blowing dribble, and you start to underestimate them. That is when they pounce.
Interrogate them pitilessly; examine their diapers for weapons; don’t turn your back for a second.
Just keeping another campaign promise…
No blame for the on-scene commanders? Communication intercepts told them they had lost the element of surprise. You’re supposed a plan B that may include aborting the mission. Happened all the time throughout my deployments to the desert. Weather, breakdowns, botched intel; you go home and learn from it.
Warning - my opinion. There may have been some external pressure to continue the mission is spite of it’s discovery. I base that on my experience with these troops. Normally it’s Practice, practice, practice the mission. The public see too many movies and TV shows where Arnold/Sylvester/etc… just drop from the sky and cut loose. Doesn’t happen in real missions. The Spec Ops guys have tons of confidence but they are smart too. The overly macho guys tend to get weeded out.
And that external pressure would have come from where?
Yeah, people - so what if an American serviceman died. What difference does it make?
Huh. If this tactic works reliably on President Trump, I wonder if somebody can manage to tell him that Obama was just too spineless to institute universal single-payer healthcare coverage.
Hell, I bet Obama would be magnanimous enough to have that conversation himself. “Oh sure, Mr. President, I knew that single-payer would be a much better deal in the long run, but I couldn’t do it. Just didn’t have the guts to take charge and make it happen. Sure would have boosted my inauguration crowd size if I had, though.”
It’s good to know US policy is being decided by Needles from Back to the Future.
“What are ya - chicken?”
Father of SEAL killed in botched Yemen raid denounces the president
Decision over dinner. And tweeted about other stuff during the raid.
But Trump didn’t do anything wrong! It was the generals’ fault! They made him do it!
That is the risk they take when they sign up. People do die in combat, you know.
I’m sure they do. But we, as the American people, expect the Generals and the Commander-in-Chief to not spend our sons’ and daughters’ lives cavalierly, as if they were blocking extras in a Michael Bay movie, with an ill-informed decision made between appetizers and the salad.
But that’s what the Soviets did in WWII… And they WON! And since 45 is smitten with Russia…
We all miss a joke now and then. I’m guessing Gyrate was, in the bolded sentence, referencing a rhetorical question posed by HR Clinton during one of the Benghazi hearings:
See this for more details and context.
So I think Gyrate was riffing off Republican criticisms of Clinton in response to Republican (or Republican-curious, in the case of some posters here) defenses of Trump. Myself, I don’t think this kind of “whataboutism” is, overall, politically helpful for a party that is not catering to a bunch of dum-dums.
But it still feels good to point out the hypocrisy.
Only one American died. One. If you’re unwilling to accept even one casualty then America should break out the nukes and disband the ground forces.
Yup. Guess I got whooshed.
Indeed. Four Americans died in the Benghazi attacks and the Republicans and their supporters used this to launch years of investigations and endless hysterical allegations about how Obama and Clinton were directly or indirectly responsible. The outrage over the (admittedly tragic) deaths was stirred up over and over to pretend that Obama and Clinton had a cavalier disregard for American lives. They even extracted the phrase “What difference does it make?” from its original context in order to pretend that it meant the exact opposite of what it had meant.
And yet here we have an ill-considered operation which Trump was directly responsible for greenlighting resulting in American deaths, and certain people are all “Meh - shit happens”.
Yes, servicemen (and innocent bystanders) die in military operations all the time, but the difference in attitude is exceedingly noteworthy.