Reflecting on his presidency, Obama posed the question, “Well, was there something else I could have done?”

Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”

“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” he said in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.

  • jarfil@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 year ago

    The objective of the IDF is to free the hostages. They will make an effort to minimize civilian casualties.

    When a legitimate target is hiding among civilians, there are two possible responses:

    • Civilized nations: “F%ck, guess we’ll have to wait until they move”
    • Non-civilized nations: “Collateral damage”

    But they must achieve that objective even while know civilian causalities are a certainty

    No “buts”. Like it or not, defend it or not, that’s what non-civilized nations do.