Monday, September 19, 2016 Barack Obama and his moral compromisesUS President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One for his departure from Joint Base Andrews yesterday. Obama has generally stuck to passive-voice formulations, as he did in Laos, and avoided explicit apology. The New York Times’ analysis of Obama’s Laos speech appeared on page A8 of its September 8 edition. We’ll never know what, say, Latin America would be like today if the United States had done nothing to stop Cuban attempts to spread revolution during the Cold War. Erdogan certainly seems like the lesser of two evils — but Obama’s policy is nevertheless one of many moral compromises during his tenure, including his fateful decision not to intervene militarily in Syria.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 19, 2016 03:36 UTC