The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

Robert Mahnke rpmahnke at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 13:16:46 CST 2009


I've been trying to figure out how to say what I want to say about
this since I saw Kai's post, and just now I saw a blog post that gets
at part of it:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/a-center-right-nation.php

I would like to think that if I were in Obama's shoes I would do
things differently, but I also hope that he is smarter, more
knowledgeable, and better advised than I am.  He certainly inherited a
crappy situation.  But the bigger point is the one Yglesias makes,
which is that this is a country where there is broad popular support
for aggressive foreign policy, and unless and until that changes there
is not that much that individual politicians can do about it.

Just my two cents.

On 12/2/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> We were actually relieved to find that my nephew's being deployed to the relative safety of Iraq - a country that actually had a centralized government at one time.  Uh, wait a minute -- isn't "troop withdrawal from Iraq" one of Obama's great promised accomplishments, as exulted over in Slate and the DailyKos?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Dec 2, 2009 11:41 AM
> >To: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...
> >
> >I got lost driving home last night in the really shitty part of
> >Newark, NJ--and I wondered all the waste overseas while place like
> >Newark rot in front of our eyes
> >
> >I think that whole support the troops nonsense is a unconcious defense
> >mechanism against the reality of: sorry your son or daughter died for
> >nothing
> >
> >shameful
> >
> >rich
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> ><lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> .. Barack Obama!!
> >>
> >> I'm through with the guy.
> >>
> >> kfl
> >>
> >>
>
>



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