The candidate of vengeance

William Saletan, writing in Slate: No wonder the president capped the debate with a joke about horses and bayonets. Bayonets are for hand-to-hand combat. They’re for getting bogged down in a situation of prolonged peril. Obama has no interest in that. He’s a man of drones, not bayonets. He’s for using modern technology to administer, at minimal risk, the ancient rite of punishment. And, God help us, we love it. Barack Obama, the liberal law professor, has become the lord of drones, raids, ousters, and assassinations. He hates troop deployments but loves to purge, punish, and liquidate. He’s not the candidate of war. He’s the candidate of vengeance.
Read more here:  http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/10/obama_s_foreign_policy_debate_from_bin_laden_to_libya_to_drones_he_s_the.html