| gen. | hand-wringing | причитания (handwringing by some experts over the state of the economy • The "priest" reference is not a throwaway. This Times article is an extraordinary portrait of Obama and Brennan's intimate pas de deux in executing deadly drone and rendition policies, and it's a relationship that appears to many as saturated with theological significance. Obama, we are told, is "A student of writings on war by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas," who "believes that he should take moral responsibility for such actions." With Brennan's "blessing," of course: "Guided by Mr. Brennan, Mr. Obama …signs off on every [drone] strike." Of course, with the hectic pace of operations and all, any Obama-Brennan disputationes must be rather brief, since Obama "approves lethal action without hand-wringing."  thepolemicist.net) |
