need not keep yours to them.” An example directly from Obama’s presidency would be Obama’s publically made announcement to close Guantanamo Bay, while still allowing the work of many “secret prisons”. (Politics Blog 2012) Another issue of Obama’s not keeping and going against his own word would be the example of how he views interrogation. Obama has criticized Bush’s administration for the use of inhumane torture, even though he has searched for newer and more “enhanced interrogation methods.” Chapter 17, titled “On Generosity and Miserliness”, Machiavelli concentrates primarily on whether or not a prince should be generous towards his citizens to gain and remain in power. He write in this chapter, “Machiavelli writes “I say that it would
