US President Barack Obama is not a trustworthy leader and his declaration of peace actually means an escalation of war against America’s opponents, an American writer and retired professor says.
James Petras, a professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press T on Friday, after Obama called for a world without nuclear weapons during a historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan, where the United States dropped the first atomic bomb nearly 71 years ago.
Obama failed to apologize to the Japanese people for the bombing that killed about 140,000 people on August 6, 1945 during World War II. The American atrocity was followed by another atomic bombing on the port city of Nagasaki, killing about 70,000 people on August 9.
Instead Obama told the Japanese audience, which included survivors of the attack, on Friday that the horror of America’s nuclear attack should encourage countries…