[Vision2020] Beating dead horses

[Donovan Arnold]

Mr. Kovis,
 
It concerns me that you don't know the difference between an opinion piece and an article strictly written with
empirical facts backed by several sources for accuracy. One is subjective, and the other is objective.
 
You can post 100s of opinion pieces by anti-war, anti-Obama, or anti-current US policy writers, it doesn't substantiate your claims that Obama is targeting innocent civilians.
 
"When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda -even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was "an easy one."
 
This is not the full truth, which makes it a lie. If you read the article which the opinion writer is referring to, you would see that Obama has only targeted 15 Yemen with American ties, all plotting an attack on American soil. It doesn't matter if someone is a cleric from Mukalla, Yemen, or Moscow, Russia, or Moscow, Idaho, if they are plotting to kill Americans in the United States or elsewhere, I say more power to the President to bring a drone plane down on their head.
 
It appears to me, you reject any policy the US has of eliminating Al Qaeda, an organization that plotted, funded, and executed 3,000 American civilians, including children, and would do it again given a chance. 
 
Donovan J. Arnold
 
 

From: Chuck Kovis <ckovis at turbonet.com>
To: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: Beating dead horses


From the New York Times via Reader Supported News:

"In interviews with The New York Times, three dozen of his current and former advisers described Mr. Obama's evolution since taking on the role, without precedent in presidential history, of personally overseeing the shadow war with Al Qaeda.  They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda -even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was "an easy one."  "  (My emphasis)

I opposed Democrat Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.  I oppose Democrat Barack Obama and the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Iran Wars.  When you have a constitutional law professor saying that it is "an easy one" to kill a fellow U.S. citizen without what passes now days for "due process,"  don't expect me to go along with it.  I find it disgusting that more people in this country don't have the guts to put a stop to this at the ballot box.  As a country, we will never learn, when  a former SDS'er is an apologist for a President who says the decision to kill a fellow human being and fellow American citizen is easy.         Chuck Kovis
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