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Always To The Right on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:02:00 PM
Diplomacy does take time, but Obama has little to show for his
efforts to date. On issues as diverse as the global recession,
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Europe and NATO have almost entirely rejected Obama?s agenda. Israel is at loggerheads with the current administration. Obama?s call for a world without nukes was met with a North Korean missile test. His outstretched hand to the mullahs running Iran has been met with another missile test. And unstable Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal.
So what is there for voters to like about Obama and the Democrats on national security and the war, if not diplomacy?
How about the fact that — as Jack Goldsmith points out at The New Republic — with a few minor exceptions, Obama has embraced eleven essential elements of fmr. Pres. Bush’s approach to counterterrorism policy? Internet sock-puppeteer and ideologue Glenn Greenwald sums it up from a lefty perspective