Obama is an enormous gift to the Empire.

[leave iraq]

Obama is an enormous gift to the Empire. Just as he has silenced most of the single-payer movement, an effort characterized by its superb scholarship exceeded only by its timidity, Obama has shut down the antiwar movement, completely in thrall as it is to the Democrat Party and Identity Politics.

Why exactly the peace movement has caved to Obama is not entirely clear. Like the single-payer movement, it is wracked by spinelessness, brimming with reverence for authority and a near insatiable appetite to be “part of the crowd.”

Those taken in by Obama’s arguments that the increasingly bloody and brutal AfPak war is actually a “war of necessity,” should read Steven Walt’s easy demolition of that “argument.”

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/18/the_safe_haven_myth

Basically Obama’s logic is the same as Bush’s moronic rationale that “We are fighting them over there so we do not have to fight them over here.” There is a potential for “safe havens for terrorists,” as the Obamalogues and neocons like to call them, all over the world; and no one can possibly believe the US can invade them all.

The war is a lie.

[Ninga]

1. Ohio's Democratic Senator, Sharrod Brown, has just returned from Afghanistan and

his findings have raised many questions regarding our policy.

Sen. Brown is very concerned about government corruption and the recent elections, and questions the wisdom of our involvement.

Although the anti-war movement has moved to the side-line, is still vigilant and I for one, will take my cues from Sen. Brown and am ready to make my voice heard.

[rucky]

5. +1

Sen. Brown is one of the good guys.

[joeycola]

2. Feingold called on Obama to have an exit strategy the other day also........

.............At an appearance before the Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday, President Obama defended U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, calling it a "war of necessity." He claimed that "our new strategy has a clear mission and defined goals -- to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies," and he declared that “If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people.”.............

[Zen Democrat]

3. Well, I think the rationale is to stabilize Pakistan. I see no war lust in President Obama.

You think he's a gift to the Empire, and I think he's working for peace, but the path isn't a straight line, and it isn't easy. And we want him to stay alive.

[G_j]

6. that crooked, convoluted line to 'Peace'

doesn't exist

[Curtland1015]

4. Yet here you are, the one brave voice smart enough to see through the lies!

:eyes:

I'm sure the "peace movement" is more than aware of what's going on in Afghanistan, and if they're silent about it, it's their own fault. Obama didn't trick or scare them into.

[datasuspect]

7. well, you have to have areas of instability in a corporatocracy

places like afghanistan and iraq provide great opportunities for defense contractor and governmental money laundering.

[Bandit]

8. "Beginning on Day One"...."One Brigade a Month"

We are into the eighth month now and I have not heard of a single Brigade being removed from Iraq..My trust in Obama is waning

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. What exactly did the President do to "shut down the antiwar movement?"

:shrug:

[nightrain]

10. knr. Terribly sad to continue these aggressive wars... Thom Hartmann said the

other day--"the only manufacturing we have left in the US is producing war goods"--guns, missiles, attack planes, etc.. Hence wars??

[msongs]

11. war good DADT bad. says so in the bible lol nt

[SIMPLYB1980]

12. I'm sure he's just doing the bidding of the Bilderbergs.

:sarcasm: