President Obamas ill-considered attempts to negotiate with Iran suggest that he still hopes to be remembered for peace" but he has engaged in scores of military actions around the world with few successes other than killing bin Laden. It was considered premature to award him the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after entering office before he had done much of anything. Several years later it is even more clear that award was unjustified. as peace seems more illusive now than it did in 2008.
In April 2012 The New York Times was calling Obama warrior in chief" saying he has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades." Law professor Jonathan Turley considered one of the top left-leaning constitutional experts in the country told MSNBC that Obama is worse than Bush or Nixon at launching unilateral unconstitutional wars. Jack Goldsmith who led the Office of Legal Counsel for part of the George W. Bush administration says Obama has expanded war powers beyond any previous president. To adverse effect as it turns out.
The New York Times listed Obamas supposed military accomplishments as of April 2012:
Mr. Obama decimated Al Qaedas leadership. He overthrew the Libyan dictator. He ramped up drone attacks in Pakistan waged effective covert wars in Yemen and Somalia and authorized a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen Anwar al-Awlaki who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. And of course Mr. Obama ordered and oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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President Obamas ill-considered attempts to negotiate with Iran suggest that he still hopes to be remembered for peace" but he has engaged in scores of military actions around the world with few successes other than killing bin Laden. It was considered premature to award him the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after entering office before he had done much of anything. Several years later it is even more clear that award was unjustified. as peace seems more illusive now than it did in 2008.
In April 2012 The New York Times was calling Obama warrior in chief" saying he has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades." Law professor Jonathan Turley considered one of the top left-leaning constitutional experts in the country told MSNBC that Obama is worse than Bush or Nixon at launching unilateral unconstitutional wars. Jack Goldsmith who led the Office of Legal Counsel for part of the George W. Bush administration says Obama has expanded war powers beyond any previous president. To adverse effect as it turns out.
The New York Times listed Obamas supposed military accomplishments as of April 2012:
Mr. Obama decimated Al Qaedas leadership. He overthrew the Libyan dictator. He ramped up drone attacks in Pakistan waged effective covert wars in Yemen and Somalia and authorized a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen Anwar al-Awlaki who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. And of course Mr. Obama ordered and oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream