I don't think I am being at all cynical. You don't make omelets without breaking eggs. The wiretapping has been excessive, but is now under scrutiny. That's the beauty of checks and balances, and says something about what a whistle blower can do in a democracy. ( Chelsea Manning will now get to spend 8 plus years in an all-male institution. Ain't that a crock.) There is also the issue of foreign powers hacking US computers and systems. The US is not the only player in the intelligence game. China and Iran have both been caught with their hands in the till.
In general, I have agreed with the foreign policy and methods of the Obama Administration. Obama has been responsibly digging the US out of the quagmire the last Bush Administration got us into. In the case of Assad and the gas attack, this is not the first but at least the third gas attack this year in which his regime has been implicated. The circumstantial evidence, at least, is overwhelming.
Clearly, the Mossad and CIA were not responsible for blowing up the shrine. I don't know that that is an official government position, but I do line up behind it.
Bradley Manning will be spending the next 25 years in a prison , what a way to make an example of some one whose only guilt is bringing to light
Vital information the public constitutionally deserve to know , since its tax payers money being used here .
foreign powers will hack your computer system as long as you keep hacking them , every action incites a reaction , simple .
About the chemical weapons , yes there are visual evidences enough to indicate it has been used , but so far no single agency has come up with a satisfactory
evidence to ascribe it to Assad , all what we hearing is war drum beating just like the run up to Iraq Invasion . speaking of Iraq and how your government
Blatantly lied to the whole world , dont we at least have the right to be skeptical about all this Fiasco .
And finally , yeah Obama has been doing an excellent job in reversing Bushs wrong doing by intensifying and increasing the use of Drones 3x .
killing innocent mothers and children in the process .
You are an elder and for that you got my respect , but I cant fathom why you cant figure out that the US foreign policy whether under Rebloodlicans or a Democrips
is one and the same , two faces on one coin .