For the record, starting a statement by lumping a whole group of people into the nicey-nicey qualification of "they are all selfish fools" does not serve well to foster a constructive debate, which I presume is what you must have intended when writing this post (the alternative being to just rile up a bunch of people for the sake of lullzy flame-war, for which there's a term that I'm sure you're very familiar with).

That said, I've generally been around the places you frequent for quite a while, and I don't seem to recall you having held Bush & Cheney's feet to the fire on the very same issue, the way you're apparently so eager to hold Biden & Obama now. Care to explain that discrepancy? Was it because you suddenly woke up to the realization that governments have been treading along the brink of the basic law of the land for ages, or does it, by chance, have something to do with your ideological affiliations?

You might not answer the latter question if you feel that you don't have the time to deign an elaboration for the selfish fools you've so kindly addressed.