{"id":25453,"date":"2017-09-10T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25453"},"modified":"2017-09-10T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:51:32","slug":"why-presidents-campaign-on-peace-but-rule-by-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25453","title":{"rendered":"Why Presidents Campaign on Peace but Rule by War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why Presidents Campaign on Peace but Rule by War<\/a><\/h3>\n
(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>\u00a0Op-ed)\u00a0<\/b>\u2014\u00a0<\/b>If the United States government continues as it does today,\u00a0bestriding the narrow world like a colossus<\/a>, it will be stabbed through the heart by daggers inscribed with the nation\u2019s founding principles \u2014 the words \u201clife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness\u201d shedding salty tears of blood from sullied steel.<\/header>\n
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But I hope this day will not arrive.<\/p>\n

I hope we will soon stop simply damning war presidents as hypocrites and killers so we may take the time to see the complex reasons why presidential peace candidates continue to become warmongers.<\/p>\n

As a candidate,\u00a0George W. Bush promised<\/a>\u00a0a humble foreign policy.<\/p>\n

But as president \u2014 especially in reaction to the violent and tragic imperial blowback of 9\/11 \u2014 humility gave way to hubris. War was not only waged against Bin Laden\u2019s terror network and the Taliban in Afghanistan\u00a0but also globally against all Terror, a campaign that somehow led U.S. forces to topple a tyrant in Baghdad only to ignite and invite more terror to a fight amongst the rubble.<\/p>\n

As a candidate, Barack Obama railed against Bush\u2019s wars of \u201cchoice,\u201d promising peace in Baghdad, Kabul, and beyond.<\/p>\n

But as president, Obama\u2019s peace prize and campaign promises gave way to\u00a0more wars of choice.<\/a>Though Obama \u201cended\u201d the war in Afghanistan, leaving thousands of troops stationed there, he escalated the Afghan war first. Obama pulled out of Iraq only to topple Gaddafi in Libya. He attempted to topple Assad in Syria only to jump back into Iraq once again to take on ISIS \u2014 no doubt an enemy of the United States but an enemy also interested in toppling Assad in Syria. He\u00a0fought both sides of the same war, inflaming the conflict further. His\u00a0expanded use of drones is also\u00a0well documented.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why Presidents Campaign on Peace but Rule by War (ANTIMEDIA\u00a0Op-ed)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0If the United States government continues as it does today,\u00a0bestriding the narrow world like a colossus, it will be stabbed through the heart by daggers inscribed with the nation\u2019s founding principles \u2014 the words \u201clife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness\u201d shedding salty tears of blood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4873,259,15944,584,3391,10522,827,862],"class_list":["post-25453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bush","tag-empire","tag-joey-clark","tag-obama","tag-peace","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25455,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453\/revisions\/25455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}