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umm, actually...oh never mind.
Run out of NYT-sponsored commonplaces and platitutes that redeem your darling Obama as some kind of authentic political hero, huh?
You brought up a couple of points in order to back up your claim that there are significant differences in the foreign and security policy between the Neo-Cons and Obama, and I responded to them.
Now why won't you engage with the issues that I have raised?
Specifically, in what way do you perceive the military campaign against Libya to be different from the wars of aggression that took place under Bush? Do you believe the intervention to have been genuinely guided by humanitarian motives?
What is your opinion about the curtailment and violation of civil rights and liberties actively pursued by the Obama administration, namely targeted assassinations of US citizens and legislation such as the NDAA that is an even greater step toward an authoritarian police state than the Patriot Act?
What do you say about the collateral damage rate of the drone warfare drastically expanded under Obama, which according to official figures costs about 30 non-combatants' lives in every strike? Is that justifiable?
And lastly, what about the sanctions against Iran imposed by Obama that under international law constitute an act of war? Do you believe the hype about the alleged secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme? Are we to believe the reports in this matter brought forth by the same intelligence services that manufactured false evidence of WMD's in Iraq?