I don’t want to derail the Jimmy Carter thread, so I’m starting this one.
Ain’t it the truth? Carter approved the plan. After the collision, Generals asked that the mission be aborted and Carter granted the request. And then he gets blamed for it.
Clinton ordered attacks on terrorist targets, and the Republicans rebuked him for it.
More terrorists (including Osama bin Laden) have been killed under Obama’s orders, and Republicans hate him for it. Before that, Obama was scorned for ‘not doing anything’. (Hm… Might it be that he was gathering intelligence and preparing for operations, but not broadcasting it?) Bush negotiated the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2008, and Obama is hated for following the agreement.
let me state that I am skeptical about these claims (of CIA drones killing lots of terrorists). it sounds like a re-play of the Vietnam body counts. WHO is verifying these kills? We have whose word for this? We may well be killing innocent people-just who is doing the fact-checking?
Democratic presidents will always take heat about this because the opposition does not see clear-thinking, rational, logical reasoning as more important than looking macho.