UN Lawyer Leading Drone Inquiry Calls Obama Speech 'Significant' and 'Historic'

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3. well

I'm not really up for debating the issues surrounding the president's initiatives (busy today) - I would highlight the fact that there are serious and significant steps that need to be carried out by Congress and the administration before anyone can be sanguine about any of this. I am a bit cynical about the outcome, but I don't think I could have expected a more determined and insistent speech from Pres. Obama than the one he gave. On one hand, it's surprising, really, in its challenge to the cw in dc about our terror war; although, it is well in line with the thinking of a majority of Americans who aren't buying that these measures and practices are making us more secure.

Best part is to see that he is the man that many of us have said he would be at this point in his daunting and engaging presidency.