Obama's Rambo Foreign Policy

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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.

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