6/18/2008

Obama is a Hawk

 Pilger weighs in on Obama. beyond the sheen of change and the euphoria created by his eloquence, what's really different here?

by John Pilger - 12 Jun 2008

It is time the wishful-thinkers grew up politically and debated the world of great power as it is, not as they hope it will be. Like all serious presidential candidates, past and present, Obama is a hawk and an expansionist. He comes from an unbroken Democratic tradition, as the war-making of presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton demonstrates. Obama’s difference may be that he feels an even greater need to show how tough he is.

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