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>Governing is hard. This was maybe my answer to Scholastic, whom, as much as I admire them, I do quibble with. Clifford For President had a very medieval philosophy: that if the president was a good dog, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Scholastic can say that Clifford became president and governed for two terms, and he was wise and good. But Scholastic doesn’t ask the question: What was Clifford's tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these Vietnamese? By the end of the war, Ho Chi Minh is gone but all of the Vietnamese aren’t gone – they’re in the forests. Did Clifford pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby Vietnamese, in their little Vietnamese cradles?

-George "Red Robin" Martin

Was the chapter where Clifford ordered a drone strike on an Afghani hospital because intelligence suggested a terrorist might have been being treated there really necessary? I understand the point they were trying to make but I think it all got a bit too dark.