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

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20. you know the outcome is going to be leveraged against whatever republicans present

... and defend.

No one, not even the President, imagines he's going to completely get his way on this. What he's really looking for is to invest Congress in the operation and targeting of the drones; as well as to bring more specificity to the lingering 'war on terror.'

If you were to assume that the president would get his way on every initiative here, he'd still be heavily invested for the foreseeable future in some aspect of military maneuvering to counter whatever he perceives as threats from individuals or groups bent on harming Americans or our interests.
The most significant thing he's done here, however, is to provide a progressive beginning to the debate and insisted that there actually be one.