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  Obama's terrorism speech:
  
  
  Our export of terror continues.

  
  

  
  "What should be beyond
  
   dispute, at this
  
   point, is that Obama's
  
   speeches have very
  
   little to do with Obama's
  
   actions, except to the
  
   extent that they often
  
   signal what he intends not to do.
  
  
  How many times does Obama
  
  have to deliver a speech
  
  embracing a set of values
  
  and policies, only to watch
  
  as he then proceeds to do the opposite"
  
  
  

  

  
  "The Atlantic's Conor 
  
   Friedersdorf added that
  
   Obama "has a long record
  
   of broken promises and
  
   misleading rhetoric
  
   on civil liberties"
  
    
   ACLU's executive director
  
   Anthony Romero... noted,
  
  "the president still claims 
  
   broad authority to
  
   carry out targeted killings
  
   far from any battlefield,
  
   and there is still
  
  insufficient transparency."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  McClatchy's Leslie Clark and Jonathan Landay
  
  astutely noted that Obama's formulation for
  
  when drone strikes should be used was broader
  

  

  
  than past government statements which meant he
  
  
  "appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion
  
  
    of the controversial targeted killings"
  
  
  ...his speech had something for everyone, which
  
      is  another way of saying that it offered nothing
  
    definitive or even reliable about future actions.
  
  
  
  
   No matter how good it made some eager-to-believe
  
   progressives feel, it's impossible rationally to assess
  
   Obama's future posture regarding the war on terror,
  
   secrecy and civil liberties except by his actions.
  
  
   Until one sees actual changes in behavior and substance 
  
   on those issues, cheering for those changes as though
  
   they already occurred or are guaranteed is the height
   
   of self-delusion."
  
   
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/obama-war-on-terror-
  
  speech
  
  
  Obama's terrorism speech: seeing what you want to see
  
  
  www.guardian.co.uk
  
  
  
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