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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.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny they never say this kinda shit or act upon it when they have any actual power. Like Eisenhower and his military industrial complex speech.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The ones where every male above 18 was just classified as a terrorist?

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year 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.

[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

What makes you say he didn't think accidental civilian deaths were a problem?

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

He was the only president to drone strike American citizens.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

They didn’t stop him from doing the drone strikes.

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

Presidents/Prime Ministers become beacons of morality once out of office.

[-] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or in Obamas case, Nobel peace prize winner > War Criminal > Beacon of morality

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

when they have any actual power

Spoiler: they don't. Elected presidents can't speak against whoever would successfully lobby to impeach them.

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