Most of the same leftists who were in high indignation mode over these issues when Bush was president suddenly went dead silent when Obama continued the same policies.
Renditions, Guantanamo, military tribunals, indefinite detention...it's quite a list. About the only thing that actually got crossed off was waterboarding. At least as far as we know.
To their credit, some people on the far left are making some noise about this continuation (I've seen examples in "The Nation" and elsewhere), but for the vast majority of Good Liberals now it's "Guantanamo? Isn't that something made out of avocados?"
Moral indignation just isn't that politically useful right now. Wait until Romney is president.
I never said it was the same people protesting now that trotted off to Nicaragua or North Vietnam to show their support. The Iron Curtain fell over twenty years ago. I said it was the same political ideology.
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I note the "crimes" don't get much press nowadays.
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- What are these clowns up to?
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- The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available.
- Re: The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available.
- Re: The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available.
- Answering for myself: No.
- Re: Answering for myself: No.
- Re: The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available.
- The problem is, the choice "nobody controls the seas" isn't available.
- Yemen doesn't have any oil, does it?
- Good point. When did the FBI suddenly become globetrotters?
- Re: What are these clowns up to?