Obama Libya War Powers Debate: Obama's Lawyers Are Worse Than Bush's, Glenn Greenwald Says

The policies of our government are made by people who never are on the front line of the blowback -- They don't fly commercial­. We do. 

In a democracy, we are responsibl­e for what our elected representa­tives do to other people in other countries because we give them the power to unleash the dogs of war. We allow the CIA to operate secretly and illegally, to rendition citizens of other nations, abduct and torture and murder them. And they do it in our names.

Never does that fact hit harder than on days like 9/11, when people you know and love, members of your family, your friends, are in the wrong place at the wrong time.  

Victims of US policies (like the civilians killed in Libya today and their families and friends) can't get at those who make policy in our government so they go after us, We the People, who gave Bush-Chene­y-Obama the authority.  The lesson learned is that in a democracy, you, me (We the People) are responsibl­e for what elected officials do to other people in other countries in our name. We give them the awesome power that is the US military and arsenal. We are the front line because the plssed off survivors of what our country does to others in our name can't get to those elected officials; they can only get to us.

Perhaps if those policy-mak­ers had more skin in the game, they wouldn't be so casual about their use of the awesome power of the US military.

The government does not see its job as to protect American citizens. As someone who has lost someone in an act of terrorism, I can tell you firsthand that the government does not react or respond to terror attacks unless they interfere with commerce. Until terror attacks cut into the rich's ability to make obscene profits. When terror attacks cause people to stop flying, stop shopping, then the government will act.  But in a way where more money can be made for phat cats, and not in a way that guarantees our Constituti­onal rights.  

The government and the military exist to protect transnatio­nal corporatio­ns. And Obama has signed on to that.  It's a win-win with everybody making loads of money, except us.  Except We the People.  It's not making us safe or even safer (it's actually putting us in greater danger), and we're going broke in the process.   
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