Intellectual dishonesty on Obama foreign policy

[SpartanDem]

seems to be a reoccurring theme by many who wish to characterize it as exactly the same as GWB's take this for instance:

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/134087/top_neocon_max_boot%3A_obama_%27continuing_and_expanding%27_bush%27s_foreign_policy/

I feel like this story can be written pretty much any time President Obama makes any major foreign policy announcement. It happened shortly after the election when Obama unveiled his foreign policy team and the neocons and other Republicans sang his praises. It happened with his Iraq plan, when some of his most vocal fans were the likes of John McCain and Mitch McConnell. Now, Obama’s Afghanistan surge is the subject of a love letter from neocon heavy-hitter and former McCain adviser Max Boot. Writing for Commentary, Boot said Obama’s Afghanistan approach “was pretty much all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on.”
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To cap it all off, Boot said Obama is “essentially continuing and expanding policy.”

In another recent post about Obama’s dropping of the term “Global War on Terror,” Boot wrote, “the Obama administration’s change of nomenclature for the Global War on Terrorism is less important than its willingness to continue most of the actions the Bush administration took to fight the terrorists.”

As I have said before, it really seems like the most substantive foreign policy changes we are seeing under Obama, unfortunately, are the words he uses to define his belligerent, Bush-esque policies.
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Hmm.. really? The same Obama who sent a personal message to the Iranian people? You know the former axis of evil and who agreed to helping with our efforts in the country. Sounds exactly like Mr. You're With Us or Against Us. The same Obama who said that bombs alone would not work and that is actively working to coalesce economic development aid to the country. Running around with that crazy old Bush idea that if the people of Afghanistan see no hope for future beyond their current existence that going around the country chasing Al Qaeda and the Tailban is not going to do much good. Yeah, I guess they are the same if you ignore this and million other things. If you're merely looking on the surface if the issue as if Obama is for the the war and Bush is for war therefore they must be the exact same.

Are there legitimate arguments against? Absolutely, there are the tribal aspects or that money is better spent on intelligence. But running around calling Obama corporate tool who is simply out line the defense industry to be blunt makes people like the author of this article look like lying, disingenuous jackasses.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Yep......that's what they do,

in their absolute want to make Obama equal Bush.
Too bad he doesn't.

That must suck for them.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. The GOP-controlled media are still pushing one of their tired canards ...

... there's no difference between the two major parties.

It took them a while to drag this one out and it may continue for the duration of Obama's presidency since Americans on the whole know/care little for ferners.

[elleng]

3. Max Boot's an idiot.

His blatherings should not take up space here.