By Ed Rampell, September 14, 2013


How he brought opposites together.read more (http://www.thebellforum.com/psychoanalyst-interprets-obama-on-syria)
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Q: Obama may wring his hands and weep about the slaughtered children at Newtown, Connecticut, but his drone policies have reportedly killed ten times more children than Adam Lanza killed.

Frank: I agree with you. And that is a disconnection that has always been disturbing to me as a psychoanalyst and human being. What he has done -- that’s why he’s so complicated. On the one hand he’s very compassionate and human, and on the other hand to do drone strikes you dehumanize the enemy, you really don’t think about the indiscriminate nature of the drone strikes. It’s a real displacement of his aggression. I think he’s much more angry at John Boehner than he is at Al Qaeda, but I don’t think he knows what to do about him.
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Is it just my thickness showing through or is this last sentence completely unconnected to the paragraph? He is talking about murdering children around the world, but somehow that relates to being angry at Boner? I can't follow that...

i think he's saying obama is only obliterating kids because he can't obliterate republican intransigence, because we live in a democracy? still doesn't make sense.

Yes indeed, we should take the wisdom of the psychoanalyst with all of the seriousness it deserves.
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Bootless speculation and fearless gibberish, science my ass.