Quote (balrog66 @ 27 Nov 2019 17:08)
Yeah that's not nice, but it's fairly minor compared to the war crimes GWB committed. And Obama ordered drone strikes as well, might not be as frequent, but I bet he still has Trump beat in numbers so far.
Trump's really not a great guy, but he's nowhere near being a war criminal. It's odd to me how easy many left-wing people have forgotten the shit GWB pulled (not just abroad, do people even remember the Patriot Act?). So far Trump's just been fairly ineffective, he hasn't accomplished all that much other than the Tax cuts. Mostly due to the Dem majority Congress.
i doubt that pointing out how trump escalated the drone strikes and pardoned war criminals, even against resistance from the pentagon and his own secretary of defence, means that "left-wing people" have forgotten about the bush war crimes, or obama's terrible track record in that area. the fact that someone else might have been even worse doesn't 'absolve' anyone, and most "left-wing people" are in fact very critical of obama for it.
btw, i point to the patriot act regularly when someone unreflectedly brags about american "freedom", when in fact most western societies are considerably more "free" overall...