I've long warned that Obama could have an interventionist reflex, but I'll wait for him to take office and start formulating his foreign policy before I judge.
Note that every neocon or even moderately hawkish commentator is out there in the press telling us all what kind of policies Obama will enact. America is of course a centre right country and Obama is a centre right leader who will have a centre right foreign policy. That's what the Washington establishment is telling us all, but the village didn't have a clue about Obama when he was campaigning and I therefore go by the assumption that they don't have a clue about what he will do now.
They're just trying to make it so in their insufferable smug tone.
(1) that as of Summer 2007 John McCain could never win the Republican nomination,
(2) that everything prior to the Florida primary (when he dropped out) was excellent news for Rudy!,
(3) that Hillary Clinton had the nomination and the presidency wrapped up the moment she entered the race,
(4) that Hillary voters wouldn't vote for Barack Obama,
(5) that white people in the Rust Belt wouldn't vote for a black liberal intellectual who bowled a 37 (coughTWEETY&TIMMEHcough),
(6) that Latinos wouldn't vote for a black guy,
(7) that John Zogby and/or Battleground and/or IBD/TIPP (depending on the day) had doublesupersecret methods for conducting national polls that Gallup, Rasmussen, ABC/WaPo, and other non-stupid pollsters didn't have access to,
(8) that John McCain's internal polls in Pennsylvania were totally awesome while all other firms were teh sux,
(9) that the idea that Republican voters were not answering polls, thereby hiding McCain's true level of support, was something other than wishful thinking on the part of a small group of right-wing idiots,
(10) that the Bradley Effect was something other than what anybody who actually knew what it was said it was (coughRACHELMADDOWcough),
(11) relating to (5), that a corrupt, wolf-shooting, hopelessly-ignorant hick beauty queen from a trashcan of a town in America's formerly-Russian-but-Canadian-talking vassal state understood the US better than a law professor from Chicago, and
(12) other stuff.
And that's just a few bits from the 2008 election. Don't get me started on Iraq or 2004 or any other item. That could take years.
Needless to say, I'm not concerned. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/12/if-the-only-too.html#comments
What country will he bomb first? We already know of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But where else does he want to kill? Somalia? Sudan? Kenia? As for Change - why not use some nukes?
As for Change - why not use some nukes?
