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To: zax who wrote (925596)	3/11/2016 3:15:39 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1575354

'The Obama Doctrine' Is To Whitewash His Foreign PolicyThe Atlantic publishes Obama's great whitewashing of his own foreign policy. It is the result of a series of interviews with Jefferey Goldberg written up into one gigantic piece under the headline "The Obama Doctrine". Throughout the piece Goldberg and Obama touche various foreign policy issues, mainly in the Middle East. The ostensible purpose is to refute hawkish critics of Obama who say that he has not been militaristic enough or was 'leading from behind.' Judging from comments to the piece in various media the readers seem to fall for that. But the real purpose of the piece is to hide the militaristic, dangerous to catastrophic decision Obama has made on many foreign policy issues. The real Obama has used the military to wage open or hidden wars in more countries than any president since the second world war. Obama has ordered thousands of unknown people be killed by drone strikes in ten or so countries. He has used clandestine means for illegitimate regime change from Honduras over Ukraine to Iraq where, as he admitted in an earlier interview, let the evil of ISIS grow for the sole purpose of ousting Prime Minister Maliki. Instead of making room for the inevitable growth of China, Obama is preparing to wage a preemptive war against it. The whitewash includes a lot of juicy, diverting quotes that many people will like. It bitches about foreign paid think tanks in Washington and the Saudis. It lambastes Cameron and Sarkozy. It badmouths his own hawkish advisers. When it discusses why Obama let his 'red line' on chemical weapons in Syria slip and did not bomb the country it tries to paint Obama's decisions on Syria as sensible and reasoned. But what is sensible or reasoned in ordering the CIA to ship thousands of Jihadis, recycled from his war on Libya and earlier conflicts, to Syria? What is peaceful in arming and paying sectarian "rebels" with billions of dollars to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government? The piece does not mention those facts and the interviewer never touches those questions. Obama criticizes the Saudis and Iran for waging proxy wars in Syria and Yemen. But Iran came in only after Obama and the Saudis waged war on those countries. Without him Yemen would not be bombed and Syria would be peaceful. It is he who enables the Saudi misdeeds. On Libya the president blames France and Britain for dropping the ball after Ghaddafi was killed. But it was the U.S. that enabled and directed the war, flew most attacks, dropped 7,700 bombs and had its people on the ground training and organizing the Jihadis for attacks on government positions. Here the fake 'leading from behind' is used to blame the allies when the inevitable consequences of the war, the destruction of the functioning state Libya, appear. In general the piece is somewhat interesting and shows some insight into Obama's thinking. But if you take the hour that is at least needed to read it keep in mind that this was published for a purpose. Obama is preparing his next career step. With the Goldberg interviews and this piece he is attempting to wash the blood off his hands and to whitewash his legacy. 'The Obama Doctrine' Is To Whitewash His Foreign Policy

To: zax who wrote (925596)	3/11/2016 10:56:55 AM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Recommended By zax Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575354

How do you know that Clinton's server wasn't more secure than the RNC servers used by the Bush admin for the millions of e-mails sent - government business - through the private RNC party server? Or the personal e-mail accounts used by Colin Powel, and Rice's assistants? He doesn't... cnn.com Al

To: zax who wrote (925596)	3/11/2016 12:34:10 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575354

>> The server logs were analyzed by the FBI, who found no evidence of compromise We do not know what FBI found or didn't find. We do know that pros whos job it is to get the Secretary of State's email know better than to leave tracks in plain-text security logs. That wouldn't happen. >> Please describe for me your knowledge of the protocols used in securing Clinton's Exchange server (or any Exchange server for that matter). I have no interest in discussing these topics which likely have little to do with the matter. I have no idea whether it was even running Exchange Server (there are tons of alternatives). Trying to change the subject really doesn't further the discussion.

To: zax who wrote (925596)	3/11/2016 12:38:36 PM
From: TideGlider	7 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 d[-_-]b FJB i-node locogringo and 2 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575354

You have no idea what the FBI has discovered. You follow every word that drops from the lips of Hillary Clinton like loose change on a bar room floor.