Obama, the CIA, and the Limits of Conciliation

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40. Tolkien proven right again

This is the sort of thing the LOTR trilogy was really about. Here we have a well intentioned, idealistic reformer who, to all appearances, genuinely wanted to change things in Washington. His failure to fulfil his promise to close Guantanamo, which he believed correctly to constitute a smear on our civil rights record that needed putting to rest, was a sadly predictable beginning to 6 years of demonstrating that he has been sucked into the military/industrial power vortex Eisenhower warned us against.

Funnily enough, the "ring of power" Obama was gifted by the voters (the wisest and fairest of them, anyway?) is now close enough to being all-seeing and omnipotent in its ability to zap people from the sky that Sauron might have set Sarumans pits at Orthanc to work building drones and mass storage facilities rather than primitive brutes had he been able to foresee late-20th century human technology.