you all can keep acting like Obama could have reversed the role of this oppressive country, but it won't work. he didn't choose America's path in global relations.

maarnayeri:

No matter how many times I answer this question, I always seem to get it phrased differently every few months.

I hope you don’t think you’re being slick, bud. This isn’t your gotcha moment, I promise you, not by a long shot. Feel free to keep pontificating about how Obama “is in a tight space” and “doesn’t practice much control”, but I can guarantee you he knew very well the job he signed up for, better than both you and I. Do you understand you’re talking about a top Harvard law graduate and a former senator of over 3 years? I really do apologize if this complicates or inconveniences your love affair with POTUS, but he was well versed on the qualifications and entailments in being leader of this empire long before he started his first campaign. And yet, here we are. Almost two terms in. Thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen killed. The resurgence of military presence in Iraq and direct collaboration with the Assad regime in besieging and murdering of Syrians. Almost 3 billion American tax dollars going directly into the sustainment of the IDF? Motions all over the Caribbean to raise minimum wage blocked. The highest rate of deportation of any administration in history. Do you honestly think he goes to bed toiling in a restless lack of sleep that families all over have been torn apart, in various ways, entire villages decimated under drone warfare, at his direct command? Fucking please. You cannot be that naïve.

Do I need to continue? I’m sure I don’t, so I’ll keep this concise. If you were so confident in being an apologist for neo imperialist terrorism, you wouldn’t have barraged my inbox with this trite and overdone sentiment, on anon, no less. But here you are.