Topic: Politics
from an interview on Democracy Now, 9/25/08, with Harper's publisher Rick MacArthur:
RICK MacARTHUR: [Anthony] Lake is not saying that. My friend who knows Lake very well, who used to be a foreign minister, a Latin American foreign minister, knows Lake fairly well—very well, and says that this is all smoke and mirrors, you’re not getting out of Iraq.
Now, again, I hope that I’m wrong. I hope that circumstances dictate that we’ll get out of Iraq and that Obama will see the wisdom in following through on his promise. But realistically, if you look at the politics behind it and the way he’s behaved up to this point, his votes on Iraq were identical to Hillary Clinton’s. He never voted to cut off funding, except once, when it was safe and he was courting the antiwar vote. This is not an antiwar militant. This is not a guy—and on top of that, he’s saying, “Let’s trade in Iraq for Afghanistan. Let’s up the ante in Afghanistan. Let’s send more troops to Afghanistan,” which to me is madness. Afghanistan is even more hopeless than Iraq. And this is, again, a tactical move that Obama is employing to look like he’s tough on foreign policy and willing to fight terrorism in the four corners of the world.
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Not too long ago, I wrote that I doubted that Obama is going to "pull the plug on the Apocalypse," and this confirms it. If he gets elected, his soaring rhetoric will quickly give way to reality. So, kids, think carefully before joining the military, because those running the Long War will remain the same regardless of who becomes our next President-puppet.
