Havoc in the Heartland: US Aggression Soars Under Obama - One of the most telling facts about how far contemporary American society has gone towards militarism is that 51% of people support the use of torture against supposed terrorist detainees. Something like this may have been unthinkable a generation ago, but it goes to show how strong of an impact recent foreign policy decisions have had on domestic thinking. Obama not only inherited Bush’s hard wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he took the prerogative to launch his own, both hard and soft, and to fortify Dick Cheney’s “One Percent Doctrine”.America has become much more militaristic under Barack Obama, and it’s not just a freak occurrence. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has overseen the launching of various hard and soft wars against America’s rivals, showing that he truly is the foreign policy successor of President Bush. One of the most telling facts about how far contemporary American society has gone towards militarism is that 51% of people support the use of torture against supposed terrorist detainees. Something like this may have been unthinkable a generation ago, but it goes to show how strong of an impact recent foreign policy decisions have had on domestic thinking. Obama not only inherited Bush’s hard wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he took the prerogative to launch his own, both hard and soft, and to fortify Dick Cheney’s “One Percent Doctrine”. Fighting Wars For the One Percent No, this isn’t necessarily about the 1% that constitute America’s economic elite (although they definitely play an important role in this process), but instead about a policy that Dick Cheney established in November 2001. He is quoted by author Ron Suskind as saying: “If theres a 1% chance that Pa... READ MORE HERE: us.sputniknews/us/20141217/1013331565.html
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:48:13 +0000
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