A license without limits

On November 15, 2008, I wrote this about President Elect Obama:
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"So help me God". Within minutes, if not seconds of saying those words on January 20, 2009, which inaugurate Barack Obama as President of the US and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, some innocent civilian around the world will die by unnecessary US military action. As life is snatched from some unsu...specting man, woman or child simply trying to live out the Iraqi or the Afghan or the Pakistani or the Syrian or the Iranian dream, President Obama will have exercised the most awesome power that comes with that solemn oath: his License To Kill.
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In the last six years I'm astounded how frequently he's exercised that License To Kill with such little reservation, reason or Congressional oversight. The US government has evolved over the past 13 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, into a relentless killing machine. We have abandoned all pretense of being a civilized actor on the world stage. We now officially kill in seven countries that we know of. We kill for the sake of killing. It has become institutionalized as our first response to virtually any difficult international crisis, whether real and imagined. Every such action generates blowback which ensures failure of whatever foolish goal our killing pretends to foster. Our killing mindset only hastens our demise as a moral force for good in the world; indeed as a world power as well. We can kill but we cannot conquer. The bomb makers get rich. The warmongers feel grand and empowered. The media are all in the tank for the war party, terrified they will lose government access if they tell the truth about our mindless killing. The people have no voice or influence to stop American sponsored killing. It may as well be happening in outer space as far as we are concerned. The president looks like a broken and hollow man as he offers dreadful and laughable justification for his orders to kill. At least he does not possess the sociopathic relish to kill of his predecessor. He is likely as afraid of the war party as are most members of Congress, the media, or any citizen who dares speak out. But speak out we must if we are ever going to take away his... License To Kill.