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In reply to the discussion: Please, NO. [View all]Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)Unlike many Obama supporters, I knew what we were getting in 2008: a centrist Midwestern Democrat. I didn't expect him to be too different from other centrists in the party, such as the Clintons, but at least he knew better than to support the Iraq War, something that couldn't be said of Clinton.
And now he is about to embark on another adventure in the Middle East.
Neither Clinton, nor Obama, nor Kerry are alone in this. It seems almost all the folks who are "serious contenders" for the nomination this time around, and all the inside the beltway Democrats, are out of touch with what Democratic voters actually want, which is not another damn war. But once you get to go to these high level meetings with security officials, the language of imperialism takes root in one's mind. To a child with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Here's a citation.
""Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price." Hilary Clinton
We need to get out of this cycle. Who will be the Eugene McCarthy of this generation? You cannot be clean for Gene if there is no Gene for whom to be clean.