Not much news coming in around the house lately, hmmm?
The current admin has killed more people with drones, including American citizens, without warrants, than any other. This president has gotten away with things that the former WH occupants would only dream about. And they had pretty good imaginations.
Maybe it's blindness caused by ideology or extremely biased sources that's produced this woefully myopic point of view. It sure does not match the facts that I have seen.
As far as "surrender", the withdrawal from Iraq was negotiated by the previous BUSH administration. What was Obama thinking, anyway, when Bush agreed to leave Iraq? And the BSA in Af-banannastan is not negotiable, they want us T.F. out of there, and so out of there we are going.
One can just occupy a country for so many decades for no point whatsoever, like, as in, the objective was a moot point in 2001 after Bin Laden departed in December 2001, before the occupants of that country eventually get sick to death of the occupation, just as if Canada had occupied Oregon and Washington. Eventually we would say, time to GFO. Like, as in, the first week.
I seriously suggest reading Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows Of Empire for some remedial perspective.
Well, as Pandaz3 pointed out, that comment is a bit old (almost 6 months now). But you may want to read the context of what I said back on 7/4. I was responding to a joke made by another member, and my comment was tongue-in-cheek as a response to his comment. In other words, it was a joke.
I'm quite aware of this administration's failings, no additional reading necessary. And you may want to back off the caffeine for the rest of the morning