It has taken Obama almost a full week after jihadi gunman Mohammed Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga to order that flags be lowered to half-staff in their honor.
It is unconscionable that Obama refused to lower the flags and only did so after great pressure from lawmakers and others.
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no hes not a american hes a muslum
Think about this for a moment…
The U.S. drone program constantly targets individuals regarded as “illegal combatants” and kills them without the slightest regard for where they are or what they are doing at that moment: at their homes, in their sleep, driving in a car with family members, etc. The U.S. often targets people without even knowing their names or iden$#%&!@*ies, based on their behavioral “patterns”; the Obama administration literally re-defined “combatant” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone.” The “justification” for all this is that these are enemy combatants and they therefore can be legitimately targeted and killed no matter where they are found or what they are doing at the time; one need not wait until they are engaged in combat or on a battlefield. The U.S. government has officially embraced that view.
Indeed, the central premise of the War on Terror always has been, and still is, that there is no such thing as a physically limited space called “the battlefield.” Instead, the whole world is one big, limitless “battlefield”: the “battlefield” is wherever enemy combatants are found. That means that the U.S. has codified the notion that one does not have to wait for a “combatant” to enter a designated battlefield and engage in combat; instead, he is a fair target for killing anywhere he is found.
And ultimately, the real point here: The U.S. Government, its allies and their apologists constantly propagate standards that have no purpose other than to legitimize all of their violence while de-legitimizing all violence by their enemies in the “war” they have declared. Nothing is more central to that effort than the propagandistic invocation of the term “terrorism.” We’re now at the point where it is “terrorism” when enemies of the U.S. target American military bases and soldiers, but not “terrorism” when the U.S. recklessly engages in violence it knows will kill large numbers of civilians.
Trump / Cruz / Carson
@[100004790251417:2048:Mike Hammond] he won’t bring his flag down to half staff
Maybe he should be hung half staff Rob
God he is a MF….he is NO AMERICAN!!! how dare he not lower the flag for our servicemen
you sir, are a s$#%&!@* sucking pig $#%&!@*
He did today!!!
Jeannine because congress does not have the back bone to impeach him and the same goes for our Generals they do not have the sand to arrest him and charge him with treason
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