NO! He can’t while continuing Bush’s drone policy.
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NO! The military-industrial complex is too strong.
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when a Predator does it, it's legal
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great rewards of money and position for the worst people; persecution and prison for the best people; and remote control murders of possible suspects
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climate change MovingOn — FORWARD — into climate collapse
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where the corporate party's Democrats say they're leading the sheeple they're herding to slaughter
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It,s not up to Obama it,s up to us and the belief,s we hold about the world.
Do we believe war is necessary in resolving our differences despit the fact that we have more terror, this can only be resolved by spiritual means .We must challenge the teaching,s of Organised religion not challenge each other as it,s the teachings that separate us .Also the problem is the interpretation and the infallibility of the religious teaching,s.
There was a British soldier killed in the middle of the day in the street ,the young men who did this belives 100 percent that what they did was right and that is the sad thing .He claimed that what the British government are doing to the people of Afghanastan the people of the uk have to witness for themselves to understand what,s really going on.He went on to say that these killings will continue until the uk government pull there troops out of Muslim countries and its up to the British people to vote them out if they want peace.
He quoted an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth .But as we know this religious teaching only makes the world blind.And violence only lead,s to more violence and this is why Humanity has to transcend the teaching,s some of them well meaning but incomplete and misunderstood teaching,s off organised religion.
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There could be ways of turning things around with the military-industrial bunch. They have the engineers and R&D capabilities to advance energy technologies and any number of technologies, and really turn their profit-making for the greater good. The incentive needs to be there.
I was thinking of some of the reasons Eisenhower decided to build the national highway system. After seeing the efficiency of the German autobaun for moving troops, he decided the US needed such highway system for defense. Which begs the question, could Obama circumvent congress, by making some infrastructer work part of the military budget? Claiming crumbling infrastrucure poses a national defense risk. Especially since so much of the military funding goes to waste. Perhaps involve the Corps of Engineers type units, but contract out a large percentage. Just a thought.
I firmly believe complaining about the problems does little without some solution ideas.
In my view, Obama is churning up the Islamists more because of his indiscriminate use of drones. Not even our own citizens residing in Arab countries are safe, and that is wrong. When government sets aside the writ of habeas corpus, we're in deep trouble. Even foreigners residing or visiting this country are guaranteed writ of habeas corpus. And, to assassinate our citizens in foreign countries without a trial is outrageous. In my view, these people were murdered because of rumor. Who appointed our president to sit as executioner, judge, and jury? And, to send drones into countries which are supposed to be our allies is deeply troubling.
Obama's calls for the War on Terror are synomous with calls to perpetuate the military industrial. And there is no better$$$ use for the military complex than to have them assist in the theft of other nation's resouces by conflating the fight against terrorism with acts that concentrate wealth from beyond our borders.
Sadly, military assisted theft of other countries resources and wealth result in terrorism.