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Who was worse, George W. Bush or Donald Trump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

The Taliban were negotiating on behalf of some who launched such a large attack that it could have been considered to be an act of war, and even then were proposing methods that would allow bin Laden to escape and were outside international norms for handling criminals.

And the attempted capture of bin Laden was a failure, but we are looking back on what happened. The actual successful capture of bin Laden involved the breaching of sovereignty of a nuclear power to attack him in a night operation. Pakistan wasn't even given the option to negotiate.