
“Barack Obama left office as the first two-termer in American history to have been at war every single day of his presidency. In his last year alone, U.S. forces dropped over 26,000 bombs on seven different countries. Trump blew past that tally nine months into his tenure. Indeed, this putatively ‘isolationist’ president has deepened entanglements on every battlefield Obama left him, ramping up airstrikes, kill-or-capture missions, and civilian casualties.”
Read more: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/donald-trump-flaunts-dangers-presidential-power
Related posts:
Glenn Greenwald: AP's dangerous Iran hoax demands an accounting and explanation
30 Years After Saddam Hussein, Now U.S. Bombs Kurds To Smithereens
How “Your” Government Works
Detlev Schlichter: Forward Guidance? – Nonsense! Central bankers have no choice.
Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways US TV News are Screwing us Again on NSA Surveillance Story (Iraq Redux)
Don't Let Bitcoin Morph into Govcoin
Anthony Gregory: Gun control and the security illusion
Jacob Hornberger: From Crises Comes Leviathan
Hoisting the false flag
Electronic Walls, Property and Government
Here’s a risk to stocks you’ve likely overlooked
Michael Scheuer: As scandals deepen, Obama and Republicans will intervene in Syria
U.S. Government Helps the Muslim Brotherhood's War on Egyptian Women
Pakistan: Geopolitical conundrum
Confronting America the Torturer