of an important point.
The neo-cons are really soft on Osama and terrorism, and they don't
much give a shit about Israel. Their real focus, as revealed in the
Post editorial I mentioned, is to keep oil under the control of
fundamentalist monarchs rather than the likes of Saddamist Iraq
or Iran. This of course does not prevent them from bashing any
criticism as defeatist, anti-semitic and terrorist luvin.
It seems only right for BHO to respond in kind, by highlighting
the Afghanistan/Pakistan theater, though of course the risks of
futzing around there are well-noted by Cole and others. People
are still addicted to interventionism, an election is not the place
to contest that sentiment, so you beat one kind of macho with
another, not with Kucinichian withdrawal. As noted above,
your pretensions can bite you on the ass later on.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Henwood
> Sent: 07/23/08 11:28 am
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Juan Cole/Salon: Obama saying the wrong things
> about Afghanistan
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> > Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan
>
> No kidding. The liberals seem to be giving him something of a free
> pass on this one. Great strategy - out of one frying pan, into another.
>
> Doug
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