Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to
“No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.”
“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.”