Obama's War on Terror may not be so different from Bush's it turns out. The NYT reported that in recent confirmation testimonies, Obama nominees supported:
*continuing the CIA program that transfers prisoners to other countries without legal rights and also detains terrorist suspects indefinitely without trials even if they were arrested far away from a war zone
*possibly resumming military commision trials
*pressuring allies to release information about alleged US torture practices
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Of course this shouldn't really be that surprising - Obama (and his administration) is (ful)filling a symbolic role and therefore needs to (re)present the hegemonic order as natural and worthy of protection. But it still hurts.
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and lets not forget more troops to afghanistan...
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