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by mola
2115 days ago
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Sorry, but that's lazy thinking. I used the term steer the boat for a reason. He was in charge of a huge system with its own momentum expecting a change of the sort you want is just silly.
US abandoning all the fronts he had would've been disasterous for everyone.
Regarding syria, the Syrian situation was in full swing without Obama's US involvement. The ISIS situation and Iran fighting along side Assad is a direct reprocussion of the bush invasion of Iraq.
Obama did everything he could not to have forces inside syria, that's why russia and Iran established forces there. Just compare US involvement in Syria, to it's involvement in iraq and afghanistan. If anything, you could blame him for not doing enough to ward off Iran Assad and Russia. Your type of delusional perfectionism will deter any leader who tries to follow your moral compass while keeping in touch with reality. We will be left only with assholes in charge, because they don't give a fuck what you think. |
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Thank you very much for that great phrase to describe so much of politics today 'delusional perfectionism', and which might explain a lot of the aggressive antagonism towards the media from US and UK today (and probably others).
>We will be left only with assholes in charge, because they don't give a fuck what you think.
Which I think perfectly describes Trump, and to a large degree Johnson in the UK, but also Modi on India and Erdogan who have moved themselves out of the way of all criticism.