Daniel asked Is Barack Obama a war criminal?

You could pick just about any world leader from the last century and they’d be found guilty of a war crime or two.

Penelope · 4y

Well, the US is the judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to war crimes... so, no.

Landeigestalt · 4y

Drone striking innocents? I'm sure the point he is can be argued.

kelcey · 4y

I think war is a crime by itself, so yea

J1smith · 4y

Yes and, like Kissinger, he has been honored with the nobel price for piece. Interesting world we are living in.

I loved Obama, but his foreign policy was just a continuation of George W. Bush. Drone strikes killed a lot of innocent civilians, he also didn't have the authority to do what he did in Lybia. Worst thing he did (IMO) was authorize a new version of the Patriot Act (unconstitutional surveillance program).

Alice 💋 · 4y

"The US dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016 ..."[1]. He is a war criminal if only one of the thousands of bombs that the US dropped during his presidency resulted in killing innocent civilians. It's highly probable that you'll be a war criminal when you become the leader of world's number one superpower. In today's world, a considerable number of state leaders are war criminals ... I always have said and I'm obliged to say it again that I still prefer a world in which the US is the number one superpower and not countries like Russia or China ...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636