Joe Biden plans to take 17 executive actions in the first hours of his presidency Wednesday, signing a flurry of executive orders, memoranda and directives to agencies implementing his first moves to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of Donald Trump's signature policies.
And Yemen was all on his 2nd term. My point being that these guys are never a "net good" and framing his presidency like that is a liberal take of the highest order. Cuba, Iran, and the Paris agreement are "good" things in that they are better than what was there before, but Obama was overall still an imperialist who protected American hegemony the same way every president does: death and destruction. Framing his second term as a "net good" is exactly how people justify imperialism. I can't tell you how many people I've met who have said "Yeah US wars are bad, but overall the world is better off with the US than without it."
The office of the US President is incapable of global good without dismantling their own power.
describing the entire Yemeni Civil War as a manifestation purely of Obama's willpower is disrespectful to the factions actually struggling for power there. Sure the US Special Forces did a raid or two targeting ISIL there doesn't mean the entire situation is some kind of false flag for American imperialism.
Perhaps I am optimistic here but US Foreign Policy is pretty much dead at this point going forward. The USA just isn't in a position anymore to conduct a new War on China or Russia or Iran.
And Yemen was all on his 2nd term. My point being that these guys are never a "net good" and framing his presidency like that is a liberal take of the highest order. Cuba, Iran, and the Paris agreement are "good" things in that they are better than what was there before, but Obama was overall still an imperialist who protected American hegemony the same way every president does: death and destruction. Framing his second term as a "net good" is exactly how people justify imperialism. I can't tell you how many people I've met who have said "Yeah US wars are bad, but overall the world is better off with the US than without it."
The office of the US President is incapable of global good without dismantling their own power.
describing the entire Yemeni Civil War as a manifestation purely of Obama's willpower is disrespectful to the factions actually struggling for power there. Sure the US Special Forces did a raid or two targeting ISIL there doesn't mean the entire situation is some kind of false flag for American imperialism.
Perhaps I am optimistic here but US Foreign Policy is pretty much dead at this point going forward. The USA just isn't in a position anymore to conduct a new War on China or Russia or Iran.