History tells us that if we are going to be the world's cop we need to collect tribute...er I mean taxes.
Posted on 11/28/2008 7:32:31 AM PST by obamaisandrogynous
The names floated for Barack Obama's national security team "are drawn exclusively from conservative, centrist and pro-military circles without even a single -- yes, not one! -- chosen to represent the antiwar wing of the Democratic party." In his plaintive post this week on the Nation magazine's Web site, Robert Dreyfuss indulges in the political left's wonderful talent for overstatement. But who are we to interfere with his despair?
If reports are correct, on Monday the President-elect will ask Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense and name retired Marine General James Jones as National Security Adviser. These are the Administration posts most critical to the successful conduct of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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History tells us that if we are going to be the world's cop we need to collect tribute...er I mean taxes.
I’m for free trade but I’m also for strong defense in the Reagan tradition. We need to protect our interests around the world.
Liberals, on the other hand, want to use the military as a humanitarian force (haiti, rwanda) under UN command and meddle with Israeli politics. Neocons, like Bush, wanted to promote democracy for the sake of democracy, such as in Gaza. That resulted in bringing Hamas to power. There’s a reason why we are a republic, not a democracy. We have to oppose such ideas.
As for “How many have we inspired lately?”
off the top of my head: Anbar Awakening, Rose and Orange revolutions
Biden, Hillary, Gates. He can’t pick anyone who was against the war because he doesn’t want to pick an idiot.
He needs at least one idiot in his cabinet...if nothing else but for the laughs and giggles.
I'm not the one on this thread defending the "liberal" Obama's foreign policy. The diffence between the neocons and the liberal Obamaites these days appears to be disappearing. Over at Commentary, the neocons are heaping praise on Obama. A few weeks ago, they regarded him as scumbag peacenik. What a diffence a few weeks makes. It seems that the neocons are defecting back to their original home, the Democratic Party, and good riddance.
The Anbar Awakening is democratic? Have you heard some of the guys interviewed? They were killing Americans not so long ago and continue to hate the Shi'ite dominated Iraqi government.
I think that Obama has a “two term” strategy. He’ll govern center-left for his first term and then if reelected as a centrist, he’ll move hard left for a second term when he’s term limited.
J. Jones is anything but a "ray of sunshine" as NSA! He is a PC-loving bureaucrat who spent 4 years as Commandant trying to refashion the Corps into a French army lookalike!
Lost in all of this is the fact that we won the war in Iraq and we are outta there by end of 2011 at the latest.
Wouldn’t have mattered if McCain, Obama, Bush 3rd term, General Patton won the election. It’s over.
Only problem with Time’s take is that these people are not cardboard cutouts. It is highly unlikely that any of them would take the job without a sense that Obama will heed their advice. On Obama’s part he has to do this or face the embarassing event of multiple resignations for cause if he were to cut any one of them off at the knees. Hillary for one would not hesitate to resign if she sees political benefit in undercutting Obama.
A very good point!
I agree, especially after securing the votes of the new Latino citizens.
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