[Peace-discuss] Trump the Peace President?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

"Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans will have the power to begin undoing Barack Obama’s presidency. But they are going to have a harder time than many people realize," writes David Leonhardt in The New York Times Opinion Section (Jan. 17). 

[Lisa Renee] Where are the identity politics crowd on this one? The man has dropped more bombs on brown people than both Bushes combined and holds the record on deportations. This makes it pretty clear the NYT places very little value, if any, on those lives.


> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Obama left his drone assassinations on ‘auto-pilot,’ as it were: he arranged it so that regional and local commanders can now order killings (like these in Yemen) without reference to the president’s “Terror Tuesdays” (as White House aides called them), when Obama picked those to be killed from lists supplied by CIA director John Brennan.
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> That arrangement - like Obama’s bombing attacks on Libya and Syria in his last days in office - is another example of the desperate attempts by the neocons/'deep state'/Democrats to lock the new administration into the vicious war policy of the outgoing administration. They may be successful.
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>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Karen Medina via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> CGE wrote: "We should demand that President Trump ... stop the drone attacks"
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>> "The first drone strikes under President Trump were carried out in central Yemen over the weekend, the Pentagon said Monday. // On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, armed U.S. drones attacked al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen at Al Bayda, a town about 175 miles southwest of Sanaa, the capital." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/23/the-first-drone-strikes-of-the-trump-administration-happened-over-the-weekend/?utm_term=.89802fcecb59 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_news_checkpoint_wp_2017_01_23_the-2Dfirst-2Ddrone-2Dstrikes-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dtrump-2Dadministration-2Dhappened-2Dover-2Dthe-2Dweekend_-3Futm-5Fterm-3D.89802fcecb59&d=DwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=97drhiJCHNworaBGf7qv_JbdEzdhno3cb1VPp5Bt-7o&s=GCaKq6ycqPqSeQBvnB7hUTU1C_Amv3WI4EkJYzC0ANE&e=>
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