Reflecting on his presidency, Obama posed the question, “Well, was there something else I could have done?”

Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”

“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” he said in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2419·
    11 months ago

    It’s also pretty rich coming from guy who thought drone collateral was not a problem in Afghanistan.

    He’s lucky we wasn’t president during the last time there was a huge Israeli-Palestinian blowout, otherwise he’d have a 1:1 comparison with Biden.

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      278·
      11 months ago

      Voluntarily releasing reports on civilian casualties doesn’t seem like they thought it wasn’t a problem

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        612·
        11 months ago

        “Sorry everyone, look how bad we are. We killed all these people, and we’re going to kill more. Aren’t we bad?”

        That doesn’t really show any concern.

      • dx1@lemmy.world
        413·
        11 months ago

        Sounds like circular reasoning, if the proposition is that you can gauge the acceptability of the killings based on how public they were about the killings. Any number of killings could be “acceptable” if that’s the public’s basis for judging their acceptability, that they were disclosed.

        Sort of like judging the IDF’s credibility by evaluating them on the basis of information/disinformation they released about themselves and about Hamas.