Barnett Vs. Obama
By Mitch Berg
Thomas P.M. Barnett – one of NARN Volume I’s best guests ever – engages Barack Obama’s abdication on genocide and its long-term meaning:
Tell me if this crowd gets back in that they won’t feel compelled to turn many blind eyes across eight long years. And, if so, are we not headed to the same ex post f–ktos as watching ex-prez Bill Clinton whine his way through Rwanda, telling everyone in sight he should have done something–anything?
Do you want to explain to your grandkids why your nation did nothing to counter the Holocaust-size totals in the Gap in the 1990s? Care to go through that again?
Why does Obama play to that base instinct? With Samantha Powers as one of his top advisers?
I sit back at times like this and realize there is no room for me and mine in either party: I don’t demonize the military or interventions so I can’t be a Dem, and I don’t demonize China or want to invade Iran so I can’t be a Republican.
Like all Barnett, the whole thing is an interesting, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating read.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:30 am
That damn President Obama! Oh wait, maybe Bush is still Commander-in-Chief. Still, I think Obama’s to blame for the slaughter in Darfur.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:37 am
I blame RickDFL.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Obama is such a wimp! That’s why he won’t be elected.
We’re gonna elect a Republican President who’s going to use our valient U.S. troops to stop every genocide in the world!
Sudan, China, it’s go time!
The U.S. military! Use it or lose it!
/jc
August 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Fool Obama now says instead of fighting genocide in Iraq, he’d send U.S. troops into Pakistan to capture Bin Laden, with or without Musharef’s permission.
Doesn’t he know we apply a global test before using force to capture the people who attacked us on 9/11??
That’s why I love George Bush. He listens to the generals.
Even the Pakistani ones.
/jc