article_snippet.sent: This propensity for the application of state-sanctioned violence seems especially germane when we consider another president about whom great things were expected, but who has inevitably disappointed.
article_snippet.sent: After the unilateralism of George W. Bush, Barack Obama was widely predicted to be a very different sort of president and one who would not make the sort of catastrophic strategic miscalculations of Barack Obama predecessor.
article_snippet.sent: Paradoxically enough, though, while Barack Obama has been widely criticized for a lack of decisiveness and unwillingness to commit more American forces to the Middle East, this has done nothing to curb the use of state-sanctioned violence.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike Jokowi, Barack Obama doesn't have to confront the personal narratives of the people who die at Barack Obama command.
article_snippet.sent: Or Barack Obama doesn't unless they're American citizens, at least.
article_snippet.sent: Barack Obama clearly was not intending to kill Americans, and this has only become an issue because one of the hostages actually was.