Posted on 10/05/2016 12:13:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
President Obama warns in a new interview of a future in which a U.S. president could engage in perpetual covert wars “all over the world.” But he claims that the accountability and transparency measures he is instituting will make that less likely.
In the interview, with New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait, Obama expressed agreement with one of the most salient critiques of his drone war, that it risks creating “institutional comfort and inertia with what looks like a pretty antiseptic way of disposing of enemies.” Obama explained that he had looked at “the way in which the number of drone strikes was going up and the routineness with which, early in my presidency, you were seeing both DOD and CIA and our intelligence teams think about this.”
He continued: “And it troubled me, because I think you could see, over the horizon, a situation in which, without Congress showing much interest in restraining actions with authorizations that were written really broadly, you end up with a president who can carry on perpetual wars all over the world, and a lot of them covert, without any accountability or democratic debate.” The president expressed a sense of urgency to rein in these powers that seems particularly appropriate given that both candidates for the White House have indicated receptiveness to intensifying the use of military force abroad, with Donald Trump going so far as expressing openness to killing the families of suspected terrorists.
The man (and I say that loosely) is a legend in his own mind.
Yeah, if anyone other than him did it, they might screw up.
wow, Jonathan Chait, so Obola really had to find a drooling lapdog to handle an interview with him..... nice way to “reward” the loyal scumsuckers, I suppose.
It’s okay for him to do it for 8 years, but he wants to put in rules as he is leaving to hamstring anyone else from doing it...
“Transparency measures.”
Hahahahahaha.....
That’s a hot one.
I swear that every thought that klown has is Liberal Projection™
He should be worried.
President Hillary might just drone him.
Pot...kettle...black...Oh! Is that racist?
Ze0 perpetually lives in the fantasy world on the Unicorn Farm. The real world that the rest of America lives in has had to endure his fantasy world failures. One word sums up his fantasy world: Obamacare.
This country has been waging some level of covert war for its survival since the day it was founded.
Drone strikes are like eating Doritos for Obama, so he knows whereof he speaks.
I forgot another word that sums up Zer0’s fantasy world failures: Benghazi. Both he and der Hildebeast share that word.
If Obama had a lick of sense, he'd be worrying about how he's going to stay out of prison.
Obama Worries Future Presidents Will Wage Perpetual, Covert Drone War—nigga please.
They use drones on Muslim terrorists, 0bama - not Muslim spies. So, you're in the clear.
Unless someone figures out how to equip the next president with a drone that fires a "hemp payload"... :)
I guess 0bama had to speak up to hear himself over the lapping...
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