The return of Scowcroftian foreign policy (Change you can believe in)

Hot Air ^ | November 24, 2008 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

When Barack Obama ran for president, especially in the primaries, he relied on a group of foreign-policy advisers that included radical leftist thinkers like Robert Malley, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power. The rise of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State gave political watchers the first indication that Obama would not follow that direction after winning office by gaining the trust of the Left. The Wall Street Journal looks at the rest of the team forming on foreign policy and sees even stronger indications that Obama will instead fall back to the foreign policy direction of President Bush — George H. W. Bush, that is:

[Tallguy]

Blackwater has already been offering its services to dissuade the piratical intentions of latter-day ocean-waymen, and these hired guns from Blackwater didn't gain many fans in Mookie Al-Sadr's brigades for good reason. Market-based solutions can work and save the taxpayers money in so many ways.

The issuance of Letters of Marque is Congress' constitutional resposibility. No grey areas. Given their attitudes toward private security firms I'd say the chances of this happening are exactly ZERO.

[mick]

Who'd a thunk it....Obama’s foreign policy more Rino than Commie..........geez

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well, perhaps the damage will be confined to the Homeland.

[Marine_Uncle]

A good con man must be a super good bull shit artist. Obama takes the cake. He lied his way into the presidency.