• yesman@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.

    He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.

    You may not agree that this was condescending, but it’s hard to argue that Obama’s legacy is of the peacemaker domestically or internationally.

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      14 hours ago

      Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.

      This, of all the things to be critrical of, isnt it (the drone part).

      Less invasive, less troops on the ground, more precise strikes than traditional bombings. Things don’t exisr in a vacuums. Drones were a W.

      He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.

      This hints something about you that you think it was him being black and not him not being bush after bush, and being charming.

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          6 hours ago

          To be so unwilling to see nuance, that you morphed my opinion into something completely different than what I said, and assumed I fit in your favourite political punching bag box is a problem.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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            6 hours ago

            assumed I fit in your favourite political punching bag box is a problem.

            Drones were a W.

            you kind of walked in to it

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              6 hours ago

              No. No I did not.

              To use only that excerpt and ignore that the primary point was that this was harm reduction vs prior actions is to completely misrepresent the point.

              I was clear in that the point was solely about the criticism being in the technology choice, not the foreign policy.