Obama the Interventionist

...Obama's speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs last week was pure John Kennedy, without a trace of John Mearsheimer. It had a deliberate New Frontier feel, including some Kennedy-era references ("we were Berliners") and even the Cold War-era notion that the United States is the "leader of the free world." No one speaks of the "free world" these days, and Obama's insistence that we not "cede our claim of leadership in world affairs" will sound like an anachronistic conceit to many Europeans, who even in the 1990s complained about the bullying "hyperpower." In Moscow and Beijing it will confirm suspicions about America's inherent hegemonism. But Obama believes the world yearns to follow us, if only we restore our worthiness to lead. Personally, I like it.

All right, you're thinking, but at least he wants us to lead by example, not by meddling everywhere and trying to transform the world in America's image...

Actually, Obama wants to increase defense spending. He wants to add 65,000 troops to the Army and recruit 27,000 more Marines. Why? To fight terrorism.

He wants the American military to "stay on the offense, from Djibouti to Kandahar," and he believes that "the ability to put boots on the ground will be critical in eliminating the shadowy terrorist networks we now face." He wants to ensure that we continue to have "the strongest, best-equipped military in the world."

...Obama talks about "rogue nations," "hostile dictators," "muscular alliances" and maintaining "a strong nuclear deterrent." We must "begin the world anew." This is realism? This is a left-liberal foreign policy? Ask Noam Chomsky the next time you see him.

Wash Post devotes Sunday oped column space to questionable Obama campaign material, with "Obama as natural heir to JFK" being this week's theme.

He wants the American military to "stay on the offense, from Djibouti to Kandahar,"

...but turn their tails and run in Iraq.

2 posted on 04/30/2007 8:44:06 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)

What a joke the WaPo is.

Mama Hill-de-pants is not going to be a happy camper with this article appearing in her campaign newsletter. Watch for a two-page spread, loaded-with-photos of Hill-de-pants gazing lovingly into the eyes of Bubba, as the WA Piece-Of-S**T paper gets back in line.

4 posted on 04/30/2007 10:48:18 AM PDT by hardworking (Being a rapist is one thing, but cheating at golf? Are you sure you want Bubba in the W.H.?)

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