[lbo-talk] Pilger on Obama and Democratic foreign policy

[C. G. Estabrook]

That's because the column is from last June -- but its contemporaneity shows 
that it was easy to see what Obama was six months ago (indeed years ago).  --CGE

ken hanly wrote:
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20095.htm
> 
> Pilger doesn't even mention Obama's Afghan surge policy and his retention of
> Gates as defence minister!
> 
> Cheers k hanly
> 
> In The Great Tradition
> 
> Obama Is A Hawk In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger
> reaches back into the history of the Democratic Party and describes the
> tradition of war-making and expansionism that Barack Obama has now left
> little doubt he will honour.
> 
> By John Pilger
> 
> 14/06/08 "ICH" -- -In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two
> greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the
> widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the
> chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror
> of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion
> to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January,
> his numerous threats to the rest of humanity will diminish...