Peter Bergen, the Director of National Security Studies at the Democratic-Party-supportive New America Foundation, has a long Op-Ed in The New York Times today glorifying President Obama as a valiant and steadfast "warrior President"; it begins this way:
THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.Just ponder that: not only the Democratic Party, but also its progressive faction, is wildly enamored of "one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades." That's quite revealing on multiple levels. Bergen does note that irony: he recalls that Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to defend the justifications for war and points out: "if those on the left were listening, they didn't seem to care." He adds that "the left, which had loudly condemned George W. Bush for waterboarding and due process violations at Guantánamo, was relatively quiet when the Obama administration, acting as judge and executioner, ordered more than 250 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2009, during which at least 1,400 lives were lost."
To explain the behavior of "the left," Bergen offers this theory: "From both the right and left, there has been a continuing, dramatic cognitive disconnect between Mr. Obama's record and the public perception of his leadership: despite his demonstrated willingness to use force, neither side regards him as the warrior president he is." In other words, progressives are slavishly supportive of "one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades" because they have deluded themselves into denying this reality and continue to pretend he's some sort of anti-war figure.
Comment: We won't go into Navy Seals and Osama. Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake
Instead we'll travel down memory lane about these Drones that somehow miss civilians:
Drone kills 25 on eve of mass protest, US drone strike kills 25 in Pakistan, US drone kills 8 in Pakistan, drone strikes have killed over 130 in Yemen, US Drone Strike Kills 78 in Somalia, US drone strike kills 23 in Pakistan It's easy to get to over 250 men, women and children. Perhaps Brennan ran out of fingers or forgot a digit? And this small group of articles isn't the whole, and if you think about it, what about the forgotten and hushed numbers that didn't make it into the main stream media?