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Barack Obama: No Radicalism to Be Found

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But perhaps we should look to foreign and military policy. Here we were hoping for a little radicalism in the form of a rejection of the power elite’s commitment to U.S. global hegemony and American exceptionalism. But, alas, it was not to be. The stealth radical turns out to be in good standing with the establishment Council on Foreign Relations. Obama is alleged to be winding down an occupation (Iraq) that his predecessor was alleged to have been winding down, and he’s escalating one (Afghanistan and Pakistan) that his predecessor would have escalated. He said he’d close the prison at Guantanamo, but that’s been delayed. He says no more torture, but do we know what he really means? For one thing, he’s endorsed indefinite preventive detention. Moreover, his Justice Department took his predecessor’s position and defended a lower court ruling that protected Bush administration officials from a lawsuit for the torture and religious humiliation of four British detainees at Guantanamo. The Supreme Court declined to review the case, which suited the Obama administration just fine.


See people like Rockwell, Ramindo, Buchanan, Richman and Hornberg know the whole line "Hes giving the nation up to Bin Laden" is nothing but bull****. The real gripe that the neo-****s have is that hes not killing enough and is being too slow about it.

Barack Obama: No Radicalism to Be Found by Sheldon Richman
 
According this article opposing U.S. global hegemony and being critical of it makes you a radical?


guilty.
 
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