I would definitely not call him a decent human being over his years of racist policies or being a sitting vice president for one of the most murderous administrations in US history. In an ideal world he'd be tried for war crimes along with the rest of the oval office.

Jesus fucking Christ

I do believe in start contrast to what the Orange hate machine, I feel Joe Biden does care about Americans despite where he stands politically.

I really miss this place sometimes lol

Obama was notorious for his drone attacks as Mazda has stated.

Is there substantial evidence that Obama was ordering drone strikes for some ulterior motive other than enforcing control and maintaining stability of the region? And is there reason to think Obama did worse than Bush Sr? Worse than Clinton? Worse than Bush Jr? Worse than Trump?

It is impossible to know exactly when Obama recognized the need to get the drone program “in a box” and to introduce “checks and balances,” as he put it, or how he ever imagined the earlier status quo could end in anything but excessive killings.

In any case, Obama chose to allow the CIA, a secretive entity with a long history of unjust killings, to carry out strikes; he chose to keep the very fact of drone killings classified, deliberately invoking the state-secrets privilege in a way guaranteed to stymie oversight, public debate, and legal accountability; and he chose to permit killings outside the greater Afghanistan war zone, in countries with which the U.S. was not at war. Those choices made more unjust killings predictable and inevitable.

That should have been obvious to a former senator and constitutional law expert who knew, among other things, that the CIA had recently run an illegal torture program. The CIA then got carried away with the power to kill in secret in multiple countries.

Obama couldn’t foresee that?

Many others could.

That more checks and balances were needed from day one was a no-brainer. Yet reporting by the New York Times suggests that Obama was directly complicit all along in efforts to obscure the true costs of drone strikes to innocents. As the newspaper put it on May 29, 2012, in a major investigative article:

Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent…

Yeah but isn't that just verging on semantics? "Drone attack" sounds very scary because

Oh I agree, but it seems weird to single out Obama when George W Bush lied to be able to invade a country. Let's not mention those responsible for Vietnam.

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Politics

several sexual assault allegations,

doesn't seem qualified

The reason the US has so fully embraced drones is because it further dehumanizes war and killing, as proven by reputable human rights advocates around the world. Hiring psychotic Call of Duty fanboys to drop bombs on radar blips from the comfort of their hometown prevents any of them from ever realizing the deadly consequences of their actions. If they're not on the ground walking through the remains of the women and children they blew up, they're unlikely to reject the military and become anti-war activists.