Opinion | Obama does not accept war for what it is

Abraham Lincoln hated war as much as Barack Obama does. He saw so much more of it firsthand, lost friends in it and waged it on an immensely vaster scale than Obama has. And yet, almost exactly 150 years ago (Aug. 17, 1864, to be precise), he wrote this to the squat, stolid general besieging the town of Petersburg, south of Richmond: "I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to brea

[mmsuzuki]

“The president famously said in 2011 that “the tide of war is receding” in Iraq and Afghanistan, when in fact all that was happening was that we were (temporarily, perhaps) withdrawing from our wars, which entered new and more violent phases among the people we were leaving behind.”

[godmother]

オバマが奴隷制を廃止したリンカーン元大統領を目指していたのは周知のことだけど、この話がここで出てくるということは、オバマはもうすでに終わっているというサインのようなもの。比べなくても、結果でわかる。