Greenwald já detona Obama:
"É Nobel da Paz, e já bombardeou sete países muçulmanos".
"Foi mais que o dobro de Bush. Ao menos até agora".
"Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama -- after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq," said Greenwald, who's famous for assisting Edward Snowden's release secret U.S. intelligence documents.
The Drudge Report repeated this line of criticism on September 11, 2014 (Peace Prize Prez Declares War), as did many right-leaning news sources. Greenwald went on to blast Obama for being indifferent to the legality of his actions: "The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors)." Greenwald also rehashed the dichotomy between Obama's 2013 "red line" warnings that he wanted to bomb Syrian dictator Bashir al Assad, but is now bombing Assad's enemies.
Greenwald isn't the only one in the mainstream to left-leaning media to contrast Obama's Peace Prize with his constant bombing campaigns. During a recent press conference at the State Department, an AP reporter asked if Obama's actions were "worthy" of a president who was so famously a Peace Prize recipient. It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting that bombing and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now bombing Assad’s enemies while politely informing his regime of its targets in advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it will be at war, always and forever. Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that.
At this point, it’s more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, butbecause of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War. f there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As’ad AbuKhalil’s explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya “intervention” should conclusively and permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
