One advantage to having a Democratic president, according to Bob Woodward’s new book:
[Woodward] notes that the number of drone strikes under Bush was tiny, in large part on account of an enormous fear of the consequences of civilian casualties, even in numbers that the administration believed were entirely justifiable — fears, in other words, of accusations of atrocities, war crimes, etc., from the fear of a de-legitimizing activist campaign. The Obama administration, believing correctly that it was immune to such campaigns, did not have to worry about such repercussions.
Or you could view it as a disadvantage of having a feckless, inconsistent, and dishonest left. Either way.
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