Dionne: “Obama’s Bush Doctrine”

[bigtree]

E.J. Dionne Jr. in the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/27/AR2008112702048_pf.html

"In electing Barack Obama, the country traded the foreign policy of the second President Bush for the foreign policy of the first President Bush."

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"Ironically, Obama is likely to show more fidelity to George H.W. Bush's approach to foreign affairs than did the former president's own son. That's change, maybe even change we can believe in, but it's not the change so many expected."

article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/27/AR2008112702048_pf.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. I wonder if Dionne will have the same opinion after Obama has been inaugurated.

These political writers must be bored to tears. All they can do is speculate and quote others who are speculating.

January 20 cannot come soon enough.

[leftchick]

2. wow! who knew?

a hawk in dove clothing...

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Obama did indeed denounce the impending war as "dumb," "rash" and "based not on reason but on passion." But in retrospect, the speech may be most notable for other things Obama said that separated him from some in his antiwar audience.

Not once but five times did Obama declare, "I don't oppose all wars." The first several paragraphs of the speech were devoted to the wars that Obama thought were justified: the Civil War, World War II -- in which, he said, "that arsenal of democracy . . . triumphed over evil" -- and the battle against terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11. "I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again," he said.