Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

Grade 7 math is hard.

Obama: I Stopped Being Good At Math In 7th Grade

Frankly there doesn't seem like much Obama can do.

The drone war is the most shameful part of the Obama presidency.

These drone strikes must end now and we must negotiate with these people.

It's simple math - take away one of the top 20, and number 21 becomes number 20. He should be honest with his 'allies' though.

Note to the Quebec commie, how does one "negotiate" with terrorists? Does it involve "quid pro quo" like negotiating a union construction project in Quebec?

quebecois, you aren't thinking. It is amoral and strategically wrong to negotiate with terrorists. Why?

Because terrorism, by definition, rejects the rule of law. Terrorism has moved into an agenda to get what you want by sheer physical force. Not by rule of law, not by standards of ethics, not by the justice of argument. Just pure force. To acknowledge that 'pure force', which rejects the rule of law, has any legitimacy by setting up negotiations with them is to deny that the rule of law has any legitimacy.

What do you do with terrorists? You fight them. A terrorist is not the same as a rebel, for a rebel might have a legitimate complaint against tyranny, which a terrorist has an internal agenda which his organization wishes to impose on the people (in this case, Islamism and Sharia law).

As for the drone attacks, the problem with them is that Obama is personally selecting 'Who Shall Die Today'. This is a perversion, this is unethical, this is pathologically sick. Obama has no clue about the field or the military. Such decisions belong to the military commanders, not to an armchair CoC playing a faux-video game.

Well said, Greg, Eskimo, and ET!

Presumably the drone war continues partly because Obama enjoys killing people.
He is an extreme narcissist, and is probably somewhat worse than the standard sociopath.

The drone war is the most shameful part of the Obama presidency? Not even close, not in the top ten shameful parts of his, shudder, presidency.

"These drone strikes must end now and we must negotiate with these people."

These people? Do you mean the people who ordered the killing of a 14 year old school girl because she promoted education for girls? One doesn't negotiate with such savages.

"Because we still haven't hit ISI HQ."

The very term, "war on terror" is moral cowardice. You can't conduct a war against a tactic. The West (loosely defined as Christendom) has been at war, on and off with Islam for almost 1400 years. Nothing has changed but the lack of courage to admit, in political circles, that Islam (and Shariah by extension) are incompatible with liberal western democracies or virtually any other form of civilization. The only form of peace that can exist with Islam is their geographical containment. Too late?

Drones are simply a high tech, immoral, and thoroughly futile tactic seen as a replacement for the thoroughly futile tactic of boots on the ground without the strategic goal of ending Islam.

The only difference between the Drone attacks and nuking them is one of scale. The proportion of targets to innocents is likely higher for Drones but not too much in that part of the world. The later would be considered unconscionable while the former, somehow tolerated by the human drones supporting Obama?

The thing to worry about with the drones is that Ohbummer starts dropping them on his political opponents back in the United States.