There are grounds for sympathy with these two world leaders, as they mouth their platitudes and tell their transparent lies. Both of them are decent, well-grounded and humane politicians. Both of them took office with a promise to end the violations of decency and justice that were such a blatant factor of the Bush/Blair era. In the case of Mr Obama, he has simply lacked the strength to confront the US military-industrial establishment. Guantánamo remains open, while new technology, enabling the use of armed robots as weapons, has opened the way to a horrifying era of targeted assassination and secret warfare.
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