[Peace-discuss] Trump the Peace President?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

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.

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.


> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Karen Medina via Peace-discuss <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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