Well that's on them. My point was using "Obama did __________!!!" to excuse Trump's actions is just deflection and shows a lack of mental capacity to really discuss the situation.
Obama's drone strikes are a legitimate criticism and a black mark on his presidency. I think people in general readily dismiss this aspect of his presidency to try to paint him in the best possible light. Having said all that this isn't even in the same stratosphere. The sole reason Trump is doing this to further enrich himself and his businesses. This isn't a mistake or even willful negligence as is the case with the strikes. This is active corruption. Its a nonsensical premise to compare the two. You want to start a thread attacking Obama for the drone strikes go for it and I'll probably join you but don't pull that shit in here on some whataboutisim though.
Trump is a walking talking bag of shit but I think also we need to be careful of glorifying everyone just because they're not as terrible as him. This how you get the "aw shucks look at how cute george w is with his paintings" sentiments while ignoring the hell his administration unleashed on the world. But again that's a discussion for another thread.
Trump is wrong for how he is handling this and Obama was wrong from blaming a youtube video as the proximate cause of the Benghazi attack. Both lied or mislead the public. We should not accept it from either party but depending on where you align yourself, one side or the other will say this or that is worse.
Trying to explain to low information people that SA is no better than Iran in many ways and worse than them in others is maddening.
hold on, are you suggesting that our role in turning yemen into a hellscape was a mere "tactical error"?
Got ya. Then you have SAs support of terrorist groups and proxy militias, their oppression of women, non Muslims, etc. The list goes on and on.
For some reason this made me think of this guy’s greasy fingers...I just realized he has an uncanny resemblance to dbl
No, I’m suggesting he messed up but didn’t do it while working through a lens that only focuses on enriching himself and those around him. He messed up because he made the wrong decision.
not sure intent matters when an entire nation was bombed to rubble and subsequently starved to death, this reads a lot like holodomor-era tankie apologia to me
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haven’t seen him post in a while bc hopefully he’s dead but i am sure shu would see absolutely nothing fishy about this bc he loves making conspiracy theories about nothing but seeing nothing wrong with plain and in your face conspiracies
Oh yeah he totally started a fist fight with 15 intelligence agents that required them to torture him and dismember him in self defense. Saudi Arabia can’t even torture people well, they should have outsourced that like they have too with everything else because they are so fucking lazy and inept.
Not only that lame ass excuse but they went from oh he definitely left the building we don’t know what happened from there to well actually we’re not sure if he left or what happened to he fought 15 guys and died. Righttttt
I fully expect the Saudis to send 3 kids on each others shoulders in a trench coat to carry out their next hit.