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By Robert Scheer
So now we have Rambo Obama, a steely
warrior who, according to a lengthy leaked insider account in The New
York Times, hurls death-dealing drones at anyone who threatens the good
old USA. Including children. Those children are presumed guilty by
virtue of proximity, and the Times plays along, not even modifying a
targeted terrorist with the word “alleged,” as once had been the paper’s
convention: “When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top
terrorist arises—but his family is with him—it is the president who has
reserved to himself the final moral calculation.”
Obama as the cool triggerman is an image
useful to White House operatives as they buff the president’s persona
for the coming election. But what it reveals is the mindset of a
political cynic whose seductive words cloak the moral indifference of a
methodical executioner. Forget Harry Truman, who obliterated the
civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or Lyndon Johnson, who
carpet-bombed millions in Vietnam. The Democrats have got themselves
another killer, one whose techniques are as devastatingly effective, but
brilliantly refined.
CONTINUE . . .
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