Here's an example of President Obama's promised "change we can believe in":
The NYT has confirmed that President Obama has repudiated his former view that the so-called "war on terror" should be waged in the courts and has come around to embrace George W. Bush's policy that is should be waged militarily.A Measure of Change - Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will
By JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE
New York Times
Published: May 29, 2012
WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.
President Obama, overseeing the regular Tuesday counterterrorism meeting of two dozen security officials in the White House Situation Room, took a moment to study the faces..........
Furthermore - and shades of Lyndon Baines Johnson - he is picking the "targets" himself! Only now 45 years later, he's authorizing drone strikes instead of B-52 carpet-bombing strikes. After consulting his "baseball cards" at his weekly nomination meetings in the WH Situation Room, Obama adds his new "targets" to an ever-expanding list, with the bonus that he doesn't have to worry about putting the lives of our military personnel at risk while eliminating those "targets".
What's a little collateral damage, when you no longer have to worry about "inhumane" interrogation techniques or expanding the "enemy combatant" population within that detention center that somehow withstood the stroke of his "Executive Order" pen.
Discuss among yourselves - what happens to Obama's "kill list" policy after:
a) there is no longer any fresh intel available from newly-captured terrorists?
b) drones have replaced Guantánamo as the recruiting tool of choice for a seemingly endless supply of "militants"?
c) November 6, 2012?
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