But the former Rhodes Scholar, who took her Master's degree and doctorate in international relations at New College, Oxford, made clear that an Obama administration would also challenge Europe to do more after a Democratic victory in November's election.
Do more what, exactly?
Rice:
"He will not proceed through an ideological frame and seek to impose that frame on every challenge.
...Which is a guarantee that he will.
The frame is US Exceptionalism, and the message will be that as vassal states, we have a duty to support that.
"do more" what, exactly ?
That's the whole problem. Obama talks in vacuous phrases where actual meaning is tenuous and unlikely to be what you hoped/thought it was. In this I'm reminded of the mendacious phrase "Endeavour to persevere" told to the Indains in the film "Unforgiven".
Why should we support their stupid war ? They broke it, we didn't. It's like Iraq. Good things could have happened if only it wasn't run by a bunch of idiots who think that they can do what they like, kill who they want and have everybdoy love them cos everybody loves American gum.
If they want to get Afghanistan back on track they have to stop doing what they're doing. All of it. they have to stop bombing people who are neutral. they have to stop bombing weddings, they have to stop killing people cos it's easy.
Cos it's easy, fun even, to break things, blow things up and people are just so easy to kill. Blood on the sand and holes in the ground give politicians a sense of progress. But it doesn't win peace. And if Obama wants our enthusiastic help he has to stop with the blood and the bombings.
He, working alongside other, wiser, less guilty-of-counter-productive-mayhem, heads has to work out what the hell we are trying to achieve in Afghanistan (apart from waging war on ideas) and to determine a better way of achieving that aim that what is being done now. Till then, I hope our jellyfish elites find the courage to say don't call us, we'll call you. keep to the Fen Causeway
He, working alongside other, wiser, less guilty-of-counter-productive-mayhem, heads
That's going to be the crux of the problem. He already talks about resorting the US as the leader of the world - with that picture in mind it might be difficult for him to act alongside others.
Obviously, spend more money on munitions and soldiers so you can help us defeat the world-wide communist conspiracy. Or, maybe it's the world-wide terrist conspiracy. Or the Islamicists. Whatever. Some sort of foreigners, that's for sure.
