Obama - a troublemaker?

I rarely defend anything, since I deliberately try to avoid entering most discussions unless it's to clarify something.

Well maybe not recently, but I really don't want to dig up all your biased posts in the past...

txa1265 said:

I look at it this way - if one police officer who has made it is sworn goal to root our corruption and brutality comes across another cop beating up someone because they won't give kickbacks from their drug dealing business … are they to be forgiven for joining in on the beatings because 'the other guy started it'?

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It's not that simple. Once huge government bureaucracies are constructed they are hard as hell to defang... It's MUCH easier to create them when the country is perceived to be under attack than remove them even when the panic dissipates. Especially if it requires the passage of laws authored by Congress. Hell getting anything through the house of substance is now impossible.

dead thread?

Maybe, I can put some gasoline to the fire...
Who have done worse of our peaceprize winners?
Obama or Arrafat?
How on earth could they ever get a peaceprize?