Was Pakistan involved in 9/11?
Obama is allowing bombings by drones in Pakistan. Is he oil hungry? Is he funneling money to Haliburton? Is Cheney hiding in the oval office influencing him? Is he a war criminal?
Bombs Kill 15 In Pakistan; U.S. Drone Down - CBS News
Obama & neocon foreign policy is like Nixon/Eisenhower and the New Deal.
Each president compromised with the other side because they lacked the political skill and courage to defeat them. Obama is a door man for Bush's policies in much the same way that postwar Republican presidents were doormen for the New Deal.
But let's be clear why the region has become such a mess. When Reagan defeated Carter on the biggest issue of our time, energy, America's fate was sealed. Reagan -- by going all in behind high oil consumption -- tied the health of the American economy to stability in the middle east. This meant that we would need to perpetually intervene in the region. This meant we would have to dump money and weapons into ruthless regimes, and become engaged in costly occupations. This is why Reagan removed Hussein's Iraq from the list of terrorist nations. This is why Reagan sold weapons to Iran. This is why Reagan supported the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan. He had to employ every asset he could find, terrorist or not. This is why the CIA trained Bin Laden, because the USA needed him as a pawn in their geopolitical struggle against Russia. [Does the Rightwing voter know any of this? No. Does the Rightwing voter know who ousted the popular Mosaddegh and replaced him with the ruthless Shaw? No. Part of the reason we can't intellgiently discuss the region (and part of the reason we accepted the Bush fantasy of a Democratic Iraq) is because the Rightwing voter gets his education from radio and TV pundits, i.e., people paid by the interests which control energy policy in the gulf]
But yes, the OP is correct. Obama is a rubber stamp for interests and policies he lacks the courage to change. [Hope & Change my ass. The Left needed an FDR but instead they got a flaccid compromiser]
Carter said that if we don't build a moonshot around the reduction of oil consumption, our economy would be tied too deeply to an unstable region. Specifically, he added, the military costs of stabilization will sink us along with rising oil costs. The Right, lead by Reagan and Big Oil, framed him as a hysterical Leftist and assured the country that the middle east was not going to be a problem.
Now we are being dragged to hell by the coming $6 gallon, as more enlightened nations take light rail and have the luxury of not having to maintain suburban sprawl at precisely the historical moment that it becomes unsustainable.
America swallowed poison in 1980 . . . and it is now starting to take full effect.
