BARACK OBAMA IS YOUR NEW CRUSADER:

Obama The Hawk?: Why the anti-war left is already disappointed with Obama’s foreign policy. (Michael Lind, 12/02/08, Daily Beast)

Barack Obama is not yet commander-in-chief, yet already the antiwar left is denouncing him as a captive if not a captain of the dreaded military-industrial complex. Tom Hayden, a founder of Progressives for Obama, writes of “Obama’s multiple wars—Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, not to mention Iran and the Israel-Palestine conflict.” Robert Scheer, another veteran of the Sixties antiwar movement, has denounced Obama for taking counsel from “unrepentant Democratic hawks” like Zbigniew Brzezinski. The fact that Marine General Jim Jones will be Obama’s national security adviser, while Robert Gates will continue as secretary of defense, is inspiring many on the left with buyer’s remorse about the candidate of change. With an announced intention of reminding Obama of his promises, a group of leftists has announced plans to camp in tents near the Obama home in Hyde Park, Chicago, in January. No doubt Cindy Sheehan will be on the scene.

As Bob Dole tried telling them, nearly all the wars of the 20th Century were Democrat Wars.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 2, 2008 10:27 AM