18-03-2017, 06:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-03-2017, 07:04 PM by Cliff Varnell.)
Henry A. Giroux's article was excellent until he got to this:
Bush-Cheney opened CIA torture black sites and okayed waterboarding.
How is that the same as Obama closing CIA black sites and outlawing waterboarding?
How was the Obama-Putin negotiated removal of chemical weapons from Syria the same as Bush-Cheney invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq?
How was the Obama-led negotiated removal of nuclear weapon technology from Iran part of a strategy of permanent war?
Obama deserves plenty of criticism for his Drone Terror Campaign, which creates more jihadism than it takes off the battlefield, but let's not indulge the false equivalency that Obama's policies were identical to Bush's.
A million dead Iraqis by the hand of Bush tell otherwise.
Obama deserves plenty of criticism for his crackdowns on whistle-blowers and undocumented aliens, but let's not forget that Trump's proposals in these areas are far worse.
The passage of Obamacare was the first top-to-bottom wealth transfer since the New Deal, so let's not forget Trumpcare's $1 trillion bottom-to-top wealth transfer proposal.
Obama made the internet a utility, preserving net neutrality -- let's not forget Trump's denunciation of net neutrality and vow to kill it.
Same sex marriage, trans-folks rights, the $11 billion returned to victims of credit card abuse, the opening to Cuba.
Let's critique the Obama years with clear eyes, but let's quit pretending he was just like Clinton/Bush.
Where the hell is Giroux's near-term "memory"?
Quote:solidified under the anti-democratic, war on terror, permanent war policies of the Bush-Cheney and Obama administrations. During this period, democracy was sold to the bankers and big corporations. Whistleblowers were sent to prison. The financial elite and the CIA tortures were given the green light by the Obama administration that they could commit the gravest of crimes and act with impunity.
Bush-Cheney opened CIA torture black sites and okayed waterboarding.
How is that the same as Obama closing CIA black sites and outlawing waterboarding?
How was the Obama-Putin negotiated removal of chemical weapons from Syria the same as Bush-Cheney invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq?
How was the Obama-led negotiated removal of nuclear weapon technology from Iran part of a strategy of permanent war?
Obama deserves plenty of criticism for his Drone Terror Campaign, which creates more jihadism than it takes off the battlefield, but let's not indulge the false equivalency that Obama's policies were identical to Bush's.
A million dead Iraqis by the hand of Bush tell otherwise.
Obama deserves plenty of criticism for his crackdowns on whistle-blowers and undocumented aliens, but let's not forget that Trump's proposals in these areas are far worse.
The passage of Obamacare was the first top-to-bottom wealth transfer since the New Deal, so let's not forget Trumpcare's $1 trillion bottom-to-top wealth transfer proposal.
Obama made the internet a utility, preserving net neutrality -- let's not forget Trump's denunciation of net neutrality and vow to kill it.
Same sex marriage, trans-folks rights, the $11 billion returned to victims of credit card abuse, the opening to Cuba.
Let's critique the Obama years with clear eyes, but let's quit pretending he was just like Clinton/Bush.
Where the hell is Giroux's near-term "memory"?