Obama's War Speech Offered Something for Everybody -- But Who's Buying It?

[Javaman]

http://www.alternet.org/politics/144325/obama%27s_war_speech_offered_something_for_everybody_--_but_who%27s_buying_it

The Rodney King of American politics was at it again in his speech at West Point, pleading with the assembled plebes and a national primetime television audience of tens of millions: “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”

The Afghan escalation speech was classic Obama. His enigmatic and epigrammatic split the baby in half Yoda/Spock-speak offered something for everyone: good-news-bad-news; back and forth; give and take; get in to get out; speed up to slow down; and in the end, let’s all come together and get along to end the war – by waging the war more intensely…but only for eighteen months, and then we all get to go home.

Got that? You know, “Can we all get along?”

Someone give that man a peace prize!

Yes, it was back to the future again…back to the “surge,” then further back to the 9/11 attacks and a time “we were united,” and back to an Afghanistan we cared about — before we didn’t care any more, because what we cared about was Iraq…

[rollingrock]

1. Not me

I never buy anything from a used car salesman.