• SpacemanSpiff@lemmy.zip
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      14 hours ago

      Obama was drone bombing people here in the middle east throughout his tenure. It’s bizarre reading Americans today with such rosy views of his foreign policy.

      During the Obama regime, the US killed people in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Uganda, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

      And there were several massacres of civilians during that time, such as the Kunduz hospital massacre in Afghanistan, the Al-Majala massacre in Yemen, the Al-Jadida massacre in Iraq, etc etc etc etc.

      From my perspective over here, Trump is just more of the same yankee bullshit.

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        7 hours ago

        You are correct, but Bush and Trump have been worse. Obama increased the transparency of the killings which is why the numbers look higher, but that wasn’t reported on very well and it was more obfuscated both before and after.

        To be clear, that doesn’t absolve him of his crimes.

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        6 hours ago

        Americans don’t like war, so when our government does horrifying war crimes in other counties, we try REALLY HARD to not think about it.