Collapsing U.S. credibility

Two Op-Eds in The New York Times this morning both warn of the precipitous decline of American credibility on matters of human rights and peace ushered in by the Obama presidency. Taken together, they explain much of why I’ve been writing what I’ve been writing over the last three years. The first is from Columbia Professor and cyber expert Misha Glenny, who explains the significance of the first ever deployment of cyberwarfare — by the U.S. (first under Bush and accelerated under Obama), along with Israel, against Iran:,

The second is from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter an actually meritorious Nobel Peace Prize winner who describes the record of his fellow Nobel laureate the current President in an Op-Ed entitled “A Cruel and Unusual Record“: