Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely if anyone in the mainstream media, outside of Helen Thomas, will ask this most relevant question of Obama or his press secretary.

Imagine how quickly the financial crisis could be reduced by withdrawing troops not only from Iraq, but from around the world. Breaking up is hard to do for lovers, and so is giving up power for the imperialists. Until a rational proposal to stand down militarily, close bases around the world and stop the proliferation of US hegemony, the economic crisis will NOT be resolved. If Obama doesn’t see it this way, he’s barely viewing reality through one good eye.

It must be hard to make a sacrifice as such when the nation’s most profitable exports are war and arms. What a pathetically insecure bunch of mongers they are.

Thanks for the article, William.

Best to you.

It’s General Wesley CLARK (no “e” at the end).

Thank you.

Peace

How could it be any different?

Obama isn’t going to turn into a progressive, no matter how much pressure he gets.

This is a deeply conservative man who praised Raygun’s defense spending—a totally absurd position that would have been laughed out of any credible opposition party.

His now famous 2004 DNC speech was all pull yourself up by your bootstraps crap.

A guy like Obama can only win the presidency in a society that is focused on personality over policy, superficial over seriousness, and celebrity over the cerebral.

For all the praise this guy gets for his intellect look at his actual policy proposals. The only legislative “successes” he had were in blunting progressive proposals. He’s basically a front man for corporate and military power. Far better than Bush from the elite point of view. A man who can sell the policies—in a captivating fashion—to a largely uninformed, attention diverted public.

I wonder who Obama will award them to? Hopefully not Olmert or the DIME Armament Manufacturers.

In fact, they just lined up beween the Presidential Piper. The “democrats” now have control of both houses of congress and the executive seat, but there’s nothing to be done because now we need to become fiscally responsible and help capitalism become competitive at our own expense. Sigh. Forty years I’ve been watching this shit now. New faces, but the same old game. And the war, the occupation? Oh, well, that might be over with in sixteen months. But anyway, he’s closing Guatanamo. In a year.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Take an honest look at the mass hysteria, the force behind Obama’s election, and then try to argue that it wasn’t (largely) a collective attempt of clearing the recent atrocities from the “national conscience”, while simultaneously attempting to preserve the way of life that demands such actions. (I would point here to the issues debated: Iraq, Gitmo, etc., as well as to the sudden shift in the focus of the discourse when the financial gods finally determined and declared that we were indeed in a recession).

That’s the reason for the existence of the Democratic party at this point in history; after declarations of “crusades,” “New World Orders”, and the necessity of torture, much of the “progressive” public feel the need to “wipe the slate clean”, with a party of hope…. reality plays a very small role in this conception of the democratic party…Rather they “must” be the good guys, if the other guys were so bad (after all, this is America, ONE side must be good). Anyone who tries to suggest that attention should be paid to either “rules of the game” or how these rules manifest themselves in policy via the congress and senate, is ignored.

For the force that calls itself “the anti-war movement” to be accomplishing anything close to such a label, should forget about working with the Democratic party, no matter the symbol is at its helm.

And let’s quit the nonsense about the ‘surge’. It was just a combination of ethnic cleansing and bribery. Enough!

And one more thing- getting even more mired in Afghanistan is about the dumbest thing America could do- they’re not going to take on the drug/warlords who control all of the country that the Taliban doesn’t, so it’s impossible and hopeless. Karzai, the corrupt little oil guy is the President of about three blocks in Kabul, and his own brother is a drug dealer. Good luck!

domestics are also controled; mostly by miseducation by all layers of americana, africana, chicana, asiana, and, of course, the whites; save the hobo class.

of course, had the ‘education’ failed to educate macs, joes, janes ‘properly’, uncle cld always use the plan B; i.e, fall back on cia, fbi, army, rats, et al.

but uncle ‘knew’ (my eduction) that the ‘education’ in germany from ’33-44 worked so well that 40+ germans went to die to prove that they were enlightened.
the other 50+ germans were overjoyed to send their kids to sow and reap goodies for deutscland, fuer den vaterland.
but it does seem that about half of amers are not elated about sending their offspring to ‘defend’ the greatness of america.
that’s s’mwhat surprising as it doesn’t come near den deutschen froelichkeit und gemuetlichkeit fuer den kriegen. danke, spasibo, sheshe, sayonara.