and a doctor’s without borders hospital. You know you’re a piece of shit when one of the most altruistic organizations that’s ever existed calls you a war criminal
Comment on 2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms)
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I like how this is remembered as a scandal, as opposed to drone striking a wedding
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Certainly, presidents have some responsibility for things that the military does during their tenure, but people talk about these events, like he was told they were striking a DWB facility. I suspect he was told told they had located their target, and he approved without knowledge of the location and potential blowback.
His Whitehouse always struck me as more savvy than that, which led me to believe some of these were the result of omissions during communication from overseas.
That said, I totally believe they would bomb a wedding if they felt a high enough priority target was there (even if they were wrong). I felt the military was given ALOT of freedom to make decisions on their own while Obama was in office.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
That sounds reasonable.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 7 months ago
Americans have different priorities