Op-Ed: Bush's two wars, an Obama continuation
As the joke goes, Barack Obama is the only Nobel Peace Prize laureate to kill civilians in drone strikes. If he's a peaceful president, then George W. Bush is a peaceful president, too.
The deemed "war on terror" began as a reaction to the attacks on September 11th, 2011.
Little did we realize—though few of us did—that the US government’s quick response to these heinous crimes would lead our country into legal and ethical questions it had already faced many few times in its history.
Primarily initiated as a means to bring certain al-Qaeda terrorists to justice for their role in the attacks, the casus belli devolved into a general fight against mass crime. And, under the Obama administration, an internationally-used “Global War on Terror,” was officially exchanged and became an unrecognizable “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
Unless I’m living in some kind of community that is freakishly ignorant of these wars—as an undergraduate surrounded by drunken fools, it is a real possibility—there exists an eerie apathy that falls beautifully in line with Obama’s coveted “doctrine of silence.” I hope to remind all of these numerous wars we’re in, lest we forget they’re on our dollar, but, for now, we'll concentrate on Iraq and Afghanistan.
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