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Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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Wait, wasn't it his own government which decided to spy on their own people ? Didn't he force his own country's companies to spy on his own people? I used to like obama a lot. Used to...

He also said he was against warrantless wiretapping during his campaign.

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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It would be funny if it wasn't the fact that deranged, warmongering nuts like Obama run America.

I wouldn't call Obama a warmonger - after all, a lot of his efforts went into undoing his predecessor's work, getting the military out of Iraq and Afghanistan, dismantling Guantanamo Bay, that kinda stuff. Any new operations started under his presidency were relatively small and in cooperation with other international armies in comparison.

Dismantling Guantanamo? Where have you been?

How many countries have we bombed? We are re-invading Iraq, we are still in Afghanistan, we are now meddling in Ukraine which is utterly insane. Much of the weaponry ISIS is using was supplied by America under Obama, the defense Budget has grown under Obama, what metric are you using to disagree?

For all the down voters how about using some facts instead of more emotional knee jerks.

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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post #19
post #12

Wait, wasn't it his own government which decided to spy on their own people ? Didn't he force his own country's companies to spy on his own people? I used to like obama a lot. Used to...

It's only bad if others do it, because he is the good guy! Right guys?

Of course he is the good guy! He is the president from the USA, remember!? I saw American Sniper the other day, and it is very clear that they are the good guys, even when they are killing little kids. You can see it because it is so damn stressing for them to kill kids, that they can barely forget the experience. They are really, really good! And fighting for the good of everybody too! (well, not for the good of that little kid). They are so good!

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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post #12

Wait, wasn't it his own government which decided to spy on their own people ? Didn't he force his own country's companies to spy on his own people? I used to like obama a lot. Used to...

He also said he was against warrantless wiretapping during his campaign.

He was against it before he was for it.

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

#36
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Carter replenished the national credibility account?

He's the only U.S. President in a long time to have no US troops deployed in combat, as I recall. Definitely since WWII, possibly WWI or earlier.

Well, there was Operation Eagle Claw to try and rescue the US hostages in Iran:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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China is only trying to be upfront and public about things the US and Western countries have been doing in private for years. That is not to say I approve, (I do not) but my respect for Chinese authorities just went up a notch. The good thing about this is that it brings debate far more into the open and shines a light on some very shady policies.

But doing it openly spooks the consumers!

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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I disagree with Obama. Government computers have become national-security critical infrastructure. No reason for countries not to roll their own, if they can. It's one of the dimensions along which a country should be self-sufficient, along with food and defensive military capability.

Re: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

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Well, in reality, the two people that removed any remaining credibility left in the US foreign policy are George W Bush and Obama. Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice helped, though.

Come on, are Obama and W much worse than Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Rossevelt? The US will keep using up the last of its credibility year after year, and of course that just means it isn't.

I wouldn't give Reagan a pass either:

"...the bulk of U.S. foreign surveillance operations are governed not by acts of Congress, but by a 33-year-old executive order issued unilaterally by President Ronald Reagan."

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/29/new-documents-...

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