Musical stars and retired politicians from less polarised era seeming antidote to cage fights on White House lawn
The Barack Obama presidential center opened in Chicago on Thursday after more than a decade in the making amid a musical fanfare and paeans to democratic principles that evoked a previous age, all while delivering an implied rebuke to Donald Trump.
Featuring appearances by a cast of musical stars and retired politicians from a less polarised era, it was a seemingly perfect antidote to the crass spectacle of cage fights on the White House lawn.
Without naming the current White House occupant, Barack and Michelle Obama launched full-frontal attacks on Trump’s authoritarian approach, depicting them as an affront to American values.
Obama didn’t start the invasions, but if you can’t see the very real consequences of abruptly and prematurely pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, then I’d like to introduce you to ISIS and the Taliban, because this is what happens when you botch a full-scale withdrawal of military forces.
It’s not as simple as “my predecessor shouldn’t have started this war, so let’s just suddenly leave without having a better plan in place and doing years of stability operations to ensure the long-term success of the civilian government.”
Lol.