Fiascos, Bongos, and Wars

Fiascos, Bongos, and Wars

Bongos, Fiascos, and wars have all been in the news lately but let’s deal with the last first and hold President Ali Bongo of Gabon and rapper Lupe Fiasco in abeyance since America’s wars matter far more than both of them.

Our anti-war president, who rose to the top of the presidential heap in part due to his very principled opposition to our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is evolving into a warmongerer almost on a par with Genghis Khan and Adolph Hitler even if he hasn’t, yet, laid waste to most of Eurasia or initiated a worldwide conflagration.

The first inkling that should have been a tipoff that Barack Hussein Obama was a closet lover of war was his failure to push for closure of Gitmo despite his pledge to shut down that transparent symbol of America’s adventurous iniquities but he was so clever that few noticed he had a bloodthirst for conflict.

That inclination has become more transparent by Obama’s failure to quickly wrap up Bush’s Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan’s Operation Enduring Freedom campaigns, as he had also pledged, and has now been set in stone by his wars on the sneak in Libya and in Yemen. (http://nyti.ms/kK5w7O)

Characterizing the Libyan war as a “kinetic action” and carrying on the war in Yemen covertly doesn’t really cut it, transparently speaking, Mr. President. It’s past time that, having involved the nation in a third and fourth wars, that you fess up as a warmongerer.

Even the aptly-named rapper from Obama’s hometown, Chicago, Lupe Fiasco, is on to Obama. He descibes the president as ”the biggest terrorist,” although Fiasco didn’t stipulate compared to whom. . .
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