Notice that this quote is tagged as an “Idiotic quote.” From President Barack Obama:
“I do think that because of our extraordinary efforts, a homeland is significantly safer than it otherwise would be.”
http://original.antiwar.com/daniel-mcadams/2016/08/04/obama-pentagon-syria-mess-assads-fault/
You can’t accuse Obama of lying, because he said: “a homeland,” not “the homeland” or “our homeland.” There’s probably a homeland that is safer now than when Obama took office. It’s just not the United States. Cuba perhaps. And Obama uses the old trick of making a statement that cannot be disproved because the counterfactual cannot be tested. (“SLL believes that the world is a far better place because of SLL than it would have been without it”). And what “extraordinary efforts” is Obama talking about? Deposing Muammar Ghaddafi and replacing his regime with utter chaos? Deposing a government in Ukraine in favor of neo-Nazi US puppets? The Syrian fiasco? The failure to end US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq? If these are extraordinary efforts, one shudders to think what disasters ordinary efforts have caused.
Gruber: “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage…call it stupidity of the American people or whatever….”