When we lionise a public figure, the truth about
their persona is often blurred to fit the hyperbole. Perhaps the most famous
recent example is former US president Barack Obama. His breathless, bobby-soxer
type followers lost sight of the fact that he took the drone war in
Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq to an entirely new level, where drones substituted
for boots on the ground. The civilian casualty rate from drone strikes remains
in doubt, from a couple of hundreds to the thousands, but Obama