VGPolyglot said:
Soundwave said:
To be fair on the North Dakota thing I think he was involved in putting pressure on behind the scenes to get the Army to halt construction (at least for now anyway, it'll probably get greenlight as soon as Trump takes office), someone on high applied some pressure some where it seems like.
Drone strikes are bad but what is the alternative? Letting terrorist hotbeds grow out of control and hoping for the best? Having boots on the ground which would probably result in greater casualities and leave whole cities/villages levelled? Not really sure there's a good answer here.
Libya was a mistake, but I believe he's actually acknowledged that calling it the big regret of his presidency. It's not like Gaddafi was a boy scout or something though and the US involvement there was limited. I agree though on this he shouldn't opted to not get involved.
He did bail out Wallstreet, but I don't think there was any choice, a collapse of the banking system would've hurt the "people" too, as far as I know most people don't keep their life savings in cash and most people need loans from the bank to buy things like houses, cars, etc. He also bailed out the auto industry in Detroit which saved a lot of jobs.
There are some rudimentary forces left in Iraq and Afghanistan but no where near where we were pre-2008 where many American soldiers would've been forced into their 3rd/4th deployment to either country.
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Do you seriously believe that Barack Obama cares about "the terrorists"? If he was really so worried about the increase of terrorism, he would be cutting off support with Saudi Arabia, potentially the biggest exporter of terrorism worldwide. Fighting terrorism is merely a scam of a pretext to invade another country.
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I honestly don't think the president actually even controls all this stuff. There are other agencies that basically set the policy.
Like for example I remember hearing that Obama wanted to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but he was told that was not allowed, and that he had three other options to choose from.
The scary thing about Saudi Arabia, is OK, you dislike the government, but if they were overthrown, the situation there would likely become *worse* not better because the people replacing them would like be full on fanatics. It's probably a sad fact in the Middle East that there are terrible leaders virtually everywhere, but the people waiting in the wings to seize power from them are even worse.
Saudi Arabia begged the US to go to war in Syria, and Obama did not take the bait, this is the first time the Saudis have ever really been rebuffed by a US president in who knows how long. Saudis are not crazy about Obama, they liked Bush much, much better because he was at their beck and call.
