"Those who were hoping for some real change in our rhetoric, if not our foreign policy, with Obama in the White House are no doubt sorely disappointed right now, because George W. Bush could just as easily have spoken these very same words – and, indeed, he did utter endless variations on this identical theme when justifying our actions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the truth of the matter is that there are barely one-hundred al-Qaeda fighters in the whole of Afghanistan – so what are we doing there?"
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"So, you thought Obama was going to be different – that he represented 'change'? Well, in the end, you got the same blood and thunder, the rhetorical boilerplate common to all demagogues."
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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