Drone strikes
Obama’s legacy doesn’t live up to the terms of his Nobel Prize
As Obama nears the end of his first term as President, Chris Pleasance says he has done little to live up to the terms of the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, his is a legacy of continued war, questionable drone strikes and pandering to hawkish neocons.
By Chris Pleasance | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk, iPolitics | Monday, 11 June 2012 at 4:03 am
Obama’s Drone Wars strain the liberal principles he espoused in 2008
Clara Cullen thinks Obama’s drone strategy is a betrayal of all who supported him. In turn, the silence of all those who voted for “hope” and “change” is worrying; it suggests that the US liberal electorate would rather support Obama, who they perceive as a lesser political evil than his Republican adversaries, than actually questioning the political hypocrisy his foreign policy entails.
By Clara Cullen | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 8 June 2012 at 3:57 am
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