Obama's Rambo Foreign Policy
By Cliff Kincaid
January 28, 2008
The Obama vs. Hillary fight looks mean and nasty. But it also looks like one of those "professional" wrestling bouts rehearsed in advanced and orchestrated in the ring. The crowd gets excited even though the sophisticated observers understand that the outcome is pre-determined. Bill Clinton wins no matter what happens because his old associates are advising both candidates. And while the U.S. may get out of Iraq, a new Democratic Administration could lead to more U.S. military intervention around the world, a bigger Army, and even a military draft.
How many of those young people cheering Obama realize that, if their candidate wins the nomination and the general election, they will get a Washington administration staffed by former aides to Bill and Hillary Clinton? That was an administration that intervened militarily in Haiti and the former Yugoslavia and expressed regret that it had not intervened more forcefully in Africa. Obama is a proponent of this interventionist view.
Do those young people cheering Obama realize that, if he wins the presidency, they may get a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq but are likely to get U.S. and U.N. military intervention in other areas of the world, supposedly on humanitarian grounds? Under a Democratic Administration, the U.S. might have more wars on its hands.
Rambo Targets Burma
Ironically, this message of increased U.S. military intervention in the rest of the world is being fed by Sylvester Stallone's new "Rambo" movie about an old U.S. soldier leading a team of mercenaries against Burmese soldiers. As the Washington Post put it, Rambo becomes a "human rights activist" in the film, saving some Christian missionaries while killing scores of the oppressors of the Karen people. The R-rated film shows human rights violators being blown apart or torn to bits, mostly by Rambo, with the message being that somebody has to do something about the evil in the world. In real life, what the Democrats have in mind is increasing the power of the U.N. to deal with such problems. That means more money―and troops―from the U.S.
Isn't it interesting that tough guy Rambo didn't visit Iraq to wipe out the terrorists? No, he went to a place where the liberal internationalists are screaming for intervention.
Burma, also known as Myanmar, has become one of several proposed high-profile targets for those advocating military intervention in other countries' civil wars. Their new doctrine, which now has the support of the U.N., is to create "peace and security" through the creation and maintenance of international military forces with the ability to intervene in the internal affairs of sovereign states. In short, they want a standing U.N. Army, financed by the U.S.
They draw a line, of course. They are not calling for the liberation of Tibet, now under brutal Communist Chinese occupation. And they don't propose intervention in Colombia's civil war against Marxist narco-terrorists there.
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